Sentences with phrase «total social cost of carbon»

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The paper joins other academic research focused on the social cost of carbon, a measure used in climate regulations that estimates the total cost of future damage from additional carbon emissions.

In contrast, EPA's estimate for the total gains from avoided climate change damages as well as other factors (such as reduced macroeconomic volatility from reduced reliance on oil imports), might yield as little as $ 29 billion in the year 2040, in the scenario where the «social cost of carbon» is relatively low.

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.

* At a $ 400B in annual revenue and 10B tons of total waste per year, the average cost of waste cleanup is around $ 40 / ton of waste — incidentally the same figure as the social cost of carbon dioxide as estimated by the US Federal Government (Social Cost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount racost of waste cleanup is around $ 40 / ton of waste — incidentally the same figure as the social cost of carbon dioxide as estimated by the US Federal Government (Social Cost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount social cost of carbon dioxide as estimated by the US Federal Government (Social Cost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount racost of carbon dioxide as estimated by the US Federal Government (Social Cost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount Social Cost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount raCost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount rate).