Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Economic Output
Using a global dataset spanning 1979–2016, the authors show agricultural losses from past heat waves are up to an order of magnitude larger than suggested by standard approaches.Read More →
Extreme Climate and Absence from Work: Evidence from Jamaica
This study investigated the impact of extreme climate events on work absence in Jamaica.Read More →
Climate change risk to global port operations
This study presents an analysis of historical global risk to port operations under a high-end warming scenario.Read More →
Extreme heat and stock market activity
Empirical analyses show that, on average, trading volumes fall significantly (between 4% and 10%) when maximum daily temperatures exceed 30 °C (86 °F).Read More →
Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of Carbon
Climate change has myriad physical and economic impacts. This study argues that uncertainties in climate and weather extremes only further increase the social cost of carbon emissions.Read More →
The Economic Costs of Hurricane Harvey Attributable to Climate Change
This paper uses a probabilistic event attribution framework to estimate the costs associated with Hurricane Harvey that are attributable to anthropogenic influence on the climate system.Read More →
Influence of climate change impacts and mitigation costs on inequality between countries
By computing the evolution of country-by-country GDP, scenarios are built that account for the joint effects of mitigation costs and climate damages on inequality.Read More →
Climate Change and Poverty – Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
This report focuses on the impact of climate change on human rights and especially the rights of people living in or near poverty; the response so far by the human rights community and its reluctance to engage robustly with climate change.Read More →
Concurrent 2018 Hot Extremes Across Northern Hemisphere Due to Human‐Induced Climate Change
Results show the 2018 north hemispheric concurrent heat events were influenced by anthropogenic warming and further reveal that the average high-exposure area to concurrent warm and hot spells in the Northern Hemisphere will increase with warming.Read More →
Attaching a Price to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with a Carbon Tax or Emissions Fee: Considerations and Potential Impacts
This article focuses on the policy considerations and potential impacts of using a carbon tax or greenhouse gas emissions fee to control greenhouse gas emissions.Read More →