Sentences with phrase «social cost of carbon metrics»

The transition team... asked the agency to list employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop the Obama administration's social cost of carbon metrics, used to estimate and justify the climate benefits of new rules.

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The social cost of carbon is a metric used to evaluate the costs of climate change.

Known as the social cost of methane, this obscure metric is a younger counterpart to the better - known social cost of carbon.

That's orders of magnitude greater than the social cost of carbon — about $ 50 per metric ton.

In reality, the social cost of carbon is an unsupportable metric for use in federal rulemaking.

The «social cost of carbon» is a metric developed to try to estimate the impact of emitting on ton of carbon dioxide.

But there's probably no more consequential and contentious a target for the incoming administration than an arcane metric called the «social cost of carbon.»

The «social cost of carbon» (SCC) is a metric used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quantify the economic impact associated with carbon emissions.

Social cost of carbon - The value of the climate change impacts from 1 metric ton (~ 2,205 pounds) of carbon emitted today as CO2, aggregated over time and discounted back to the present day; sometimes also expressed as value per metric ton of carbon dioxide.

His March 28 executive order «promoting energy independence and economic growth» rescinded the Obama administration's calculation of the «social cost of carbon» — a metric that had been central to the process of crafting and justifying government rules addressing human - driven climate change.

The Obama administration has relied on the «social cost of carbon» metric to justify many of its global warming regulations.

Over the last eight years, the Obama administration has relied on a metric known as the social cost of carbon to justify many of its global warming regulations.

In 2013, the EPA recalculated the social cost of carbon and increased the figure to $ 35 per metric ton, up from $ 21.

There is a major fight heating up at the State and Federal level on how we set what the government calls the Social Cost of Carbon, a metric calculated by the Government on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to the planet.

The study finds that the 20 gigawatts (GW) of solar installed as of the end of 2014 is already lowering annual GHGs by 17 million metric tons, worth about $ 700 million per year if valued with a central estimate of the «social cost of carbon» — the Obama Administration's estimate of the long - term damage done by one ton of carbon emissions.

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.

Called the social cost of carbon (SCC), it is currently estimated to be in the range of $ 12 - $ 120 per metric ton of CO2, with a central estimate of $ 40 per ton.

The White House will seek new public comment on the «social cost of carbon» (SCC), a metric that helps regulators estimate the benefits of rules that cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1 - metric ton increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in that year; or equivalently, the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions by the same amount in that given year.