What is the Social Cost of Carbon Pollution?

Changes in agricultural productivity, human health, heating and air conditioning costs, property damage from increased flood risk are a few examples of the social cost of carbon pollution (SCC). Economic research has long acknowledged that emissions of greenhouse gases have the potential to impose costs on society.  Please join Interior’s Office of Policy Analysis on March 14 for their monthly speaker series.  This month’s seminar highlights the intriguing research and interagency efforts to develop the SCC estimates that are being used in Federal regulatory analysis. 

Elizabeth Kopits, Economist, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. EPA