{"id":355,"date":"2022-09-05T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voluntaryregistry.com\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2022-09-05T21:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:10:18","slug":"a-szen-dioxid-egyre-magasabb-tarsadalmi-koltsege","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voluntaryregistry.com\/en\/a-szen-dioxid-egyre-magasabb-tarsadalmi-koltsege\/","title":{"rendered":"The rising social cost of carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social cost of carbon more than triple the current federal estimate, new study finds<\/span><\/h2>\n

A multi-year study of the social cost of carbon, a critical input for climate policy analysis, finds that every additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere costs society $185\u2014far higher than the current federal estimate of $51 per ton.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Peer-Reviewed Publication<\/a>
\nRESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE (RFF)<\/p>\n

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Since 2017, Resources for the Future (RFF)<\/strong> has been working toward updating the scientific basis that underlies the social cost of carbon (SCC). The SCC is an estimate of the economic damages, in dollars, resulting from the addition of an incremental ton of carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) into Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The value has been used widely to quantify the economic benefits of policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including vehicle fuel economy standards, power plant regulations, and rules that reduce emissions from oil and gas infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of these efforts, RFF\u2019s Social Cost of Carbon Initiative<\/strong> assembled a large group of multidisciplinary researchers across many institutions to update the science that underlies the SCC in a manner fully responsive to a series of recommendations from a landmark 2017 report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After years of robust modeling and analysis, a multi-institutional team led by researchers from Resources for the Future (RFF) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), has released an updated social cost of carbon estimate that reflects new methodologies and key scientific advancements. The study, published today in the journal\u00a0Nature<\/em>, finds that each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere costs society\u00a0$185 per ton<\/strong>\u20143.6 times the current US federal estimate of $51 per ton.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0social cost of carbon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a critical metric that measures the economic damages, in dollars, that result from the emission of one additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A high social cost of carbon can motivate more stringent climate policies, as it increases the estimated benefits of reducing greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n\n

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