{"id":3923,"date":"2011-07-01T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T16:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=3923"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:33:25","slug":"the-treatment-of-risk-and-uncertainty-in-the-us-social-cost-of-carbon-for-regulatory-impact-analysis-working-paper-54","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/the-treatment-of-risk-and-uncertainty-in-the-us-social-cost-of-carbon-for-regulatory-impact-analysis-working-paper-54\/","title":{"rendered":"The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><h2>Working Paper 54<\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established &lsquo;social cost of carbon&rsquo; (SCC) for analysis of federal regulations in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It argues that the analysis of the US Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon did not go far enough into the tail of low-probability, high-impact scenarios, and, via its approach to discounting, it misestimated climate risk, possibly hugely.<\/p>\n<p>Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by arguing that there is in fact much to commend an approach whereby a quantitative, long-term emissions target is chosen, and the price of carbon for regulatory impact analysis is then based on estimates of the marginal cost of abatement to achieve that very target<\/p>\n<p>Simon Dietz<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>Working Paper 54 Abstract This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established &lsquo;social cost of&hellip;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[89,86,229],"publication-type":[435],"topic_area":[4694],"class_list":["post-3923","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","tag-carbon-prices","tag-risk","tag-usa","publication-type-working-papers","topic_area-policy-evaluation"],"acf":{"downloads":{"ref_value":"field_52f16cc1a80f2","value":["https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WP54_uncertainty-us-social-cost-carbon.pdf"],"type":"download","post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["simon-dietz"],"type":"relationship","post_type":"profile"},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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