Sentences with phrase «between social cost of carbon»

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One of the key parameters of LCA is the social cost of carbon (SCC) which is needed to determine the tradeoffs between energy systems.

Imposing a carbon tax on electricity production based on the social cost of carbon could generate between $ 21 billion and $ 82 billion in revenues in 2020 and would have important effects on electricity markets.

Ackah, Ishmael (2015): Empirical relationship between charcoal production and the social cost of carbon emissions.

A ton of publicly owned coal leased during the Obama administration will, on average, cause damages estimated at between $ 22 and $ 237, using the federal government's social cost of carbon estimates — yet the average price per ton for those coal leases was only $ 1.03.

To estimate the social cost of carbon damages from this coal, expected to be burned between 2015 and 2030, we calculated the social cost of carbon damages from the total amount of carbon pollution (3,922,481,766 metric tons of CO2) in 2015, 2020, 2025, and 2030, and then averaged those amounts.

This stabilization was due to: 1) Social effects of globalization that reduced reproductive rates below replacement levels, 2) Several genetic engineering disasters between 2020 and 2035 that killed tens of millions of people, 3) A nuclear exchange in the MidEast in 2021 that lead to a mini - «nuclear winter,» cutting average temperatures by five degrees for a year, and 4) A punitive tax on non-renewable carbon - based energy quadrupled costs and led to more efficient use of energy resources.