UTC asked the three utilities to consider the financial viability of continuing to invest in coal - fueled resources, to examine
the monetary costs of climate change, and to take time to study how they will respond to changes in state and federal carbon policy.
Not exact matches
«Even if we agreed on a particular computer simulation
of the
monetary damages accruing from
climate change over the next few centuries, the calculation
of the «social
cost of carbon» would vary widely, depending on our choice
of parameters that have nothing to do with
climate science,» he said.
The social
cost of carbon is a
monetary value measuring the alleged
climate change damages from each ton
of emitted carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The social
cost of carbon is the discounted
monetary value
of future
climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the
costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks
of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).