Sentences with phrase «projected social cost of carbon»

According to the PSC staff report on the plan, «Payments for zero - emissions attributes would be based upon the U.S. Interagency Working Group's projected social cost of carbon.»

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The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.

Gernot Wagner, Ph.D., works closely with EDF's Office of the Chief Economist, participating in projects relating to climate damages and tipping points, the social cost of carbon, empirical modeling of climate change and human activity, and others.

«In the ruling, the judges held that FERC «must either quantify and consider the project's downstream carbon emissions or explain in more detail why it can not do so,»» Revesz said, adding: «The court further explained that FERC should either use the social cost of carbon to monetize the climate effects associated with those emissions or explain why it chooses not to do so.»

As of today, every customer who purchases a new policy directly through Co-op Insurance, will see 10 percent * of their motor or home carbon emissions, for the first year of their policy, offset through carbon reduction projects in the developing world which have added social and environmental benefits, at no extra cost to them.