All pages with keywords: climate change policy

Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

a research article by Simon Dietz 20 May, 2012

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which … read more »


From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives

From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives

a working paper by Simon Dietz 1 December, 2009

The aim of this paper is to consider, from an ethical point of view, the role that economics should play in evaluating climate change strategies. Economics has … read more »