A5017670288- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Climate variability and models
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Global Health Care Issues
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Regional Development and Policy
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Princeton University
2021-2024
Princeton Public Schools
2021-2024
University of California, Berkeley
2019-2022
University of Washington
2022
Pennsylvania State University
2020
Abstract The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO 2 ) measures the monetized value damages to society caused by an incremental metric tonne CO emissions and is a key informing climate policy. Used governments other decision-makers in benefit–cost analysis for over decade, SC-CO estimates draw on science, economics, demography disciplines. However, 2017 report US National Academies Sciences, Engineering, Medicine 1 (NASEM) highlighted that current no longer reflect latest research. provided...
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial metric for informing climate policy, most notably guiding regulations issued by the US government. Characterization uncertainty and transparency assumptions are critical supporting such an influential metric. Challenges inherent to SCC estimation push boundaries typical analytical techniques require augmented approaches assess uncertainty, raising important considerations discounting. This paper addresses challenges projecting very long-term...
Abstract The health co-benefits of CO 2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared sources. However, reducing may also have an important co-harm, as the aerosols they form produce net cooling overall. Nevertheless, aerosol impacts not been fully incorporated into cost-benefit modeling estimates how much world should optimally mitigate. Here we find both and co-harms are taken account, optimal...
New government guidelines could transform benefit-cost analysis of US climate policy
Abstract Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has the ‘co-benefit’ of also reducing air pollution and associated impacts on human health. Here, we incorporate health co-benefits into estimates optimal climate policy for three different regimes. The first fully internalizes externality at global level via a uniform carbon price (the ‘cooperative equilibrium’), thus minimizing total mitigation costs. second connects to concept ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ where nations coordinate...
Over the past few decades, we have improved our understanding of health impacts climate change.1 Although many public researchers contributed to this knowledge, relatively are aware how their work may relate social cost carbon. The carbon is a core economic concept in policy and one that can—and should—benefit directly from research produced by community. concept's importance was recently highlighted year's Nobel Prize Economic Sciences, which awarded William Nordhaus part for his pioneering...
Sea-level rise and associated flood hazards pose severe risks to the millions of people globally living in coastal zones. Models representing adaptation impacts are important tools inform design strategies manage these risks. Representing often deep uncertainties influencing poses nontrivial challenges. A common uncertainty characterization approach is use a few benchmark cases represent range relative probabilities set possible outcomes. This has been done studies, for example, by using...
<title>Abstract</title> Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be accompanied by air quality improvements. The potential for these ‘co-benefits’ has been demonstrated globally and in the United States, but impact on disparities pollution exposure is not well understood. Here we couple a state-level energy system model with modeling to project fine-scale impacts of transition net zero economy. We find that achieving States leads substantial reductions PM2.5 ozone overall, everywhere,...
Uncertainty in future carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and the geophysical response to drives variability sea-level rise (SLR). However, relative contribution of emissions dynamics (e.g. Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) tipping points) projections is poorly understood. Here, we disentangle their importance by propagating several ensembles CO2 trajectories, representing relevant deep uncertainties, through a calibrated cycle-climate-sea-level model chain. The trajectory, particularly timing when are...
Wong et al., (2022). MimiBRICK.jl: A Julia package for the BRICK model sea-level change in Mimi integrated modeling framework. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(76), 4556, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04556
OPS 02: Environmental epidemiology and policy, Room 315, Floor 3, August 28, 2019, 1:30 PM - 3:00 Background: Opponents of climate policy sometimes claim that change does not exist, or warming will be harmful. A common counterargument is reducing emissions may desirable for other reasons, including to obtain the health 'co-benefits' result from improved air quality. Studies have confirmed co-benefits achieving targets large, but these scenario-based investigations do fully answer question...
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are valuable tools that consider the interactions between socioeconomic systems and climate system. Decision-makers policy analysts employ IAMs to calculate marginalized monetary cost of damages resulting from an incremental emission a greenhouse gas. Used within context regulating anthropogenic methane emissions, this metric is called social (SC-CH$_4$). Because several key used for estimation contain simplified model structure prevents endogenous...
Abstract Despite mounting evidence that reductions in agricultural emissions must be part of the global climate agenda, economic benefits such have not yet been quantified a manner appropriate for rigorous cost-benefit analyses. Here we couple and industrial economies leading macroeconomic-climate model to quantify costs animal-based foods along several dimensions. Under representative temperature targets, transition veganism alleviates necessary by 25 percent. business-as-usual pathway,...