The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US social cost of carbon for regulatory impact analysis
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Ambiguity; climate change; discounting; integrated assessment modelling; risk; social cost of carbon; uncertainty;
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- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2011-08-22 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2011-08-22 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2011-08-22 (Regulation)
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