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New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon.

ABSTRACT: Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies. Here we present new damage functions based on the current scientific literature and introduce these into an integrated assessment model (IAM) in order to estimate a new SCC. We focus on the agricultural sector, use two methods for determining the yield impacts of warming, and the GTAP CGE model to calculate the economic consequences of yield shocks. These new damage functions reveal far more adverse agricultural impacts than currently represented in IAMs. Impacts in the agriculture increase from net benefits of $2.7 ton^-1 CO₂ to net costs of $8.5 ton^-1, leading the total SCC to more than double.

SUBMITTER: Moore FC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5694765 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

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New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon.

Moore Frances C FC Baldos Uris U Hertel Thomas T Diaz Delavane D

Nature communications 20171120 1

Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies. Here we present new damage functions based on the current scientific literature and introduce these into an integrated assessment model (IAM) in order to estimate a new SCC. We focus on the agricultural sector, use two m ...[more]

PMID: 29151575

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