Bressler, R.D. The mortality cost of carbon. Nat Commun

Objective:

• Construct an additional reduced-form mortality damage function that projects the effect of climate change on the mortality rate using estimates from studies chosen from an interdisciplinary systematic research synthesis of the scholarly literature

Case:

• Global

Methodology:

• IAM: DICE
• Mortality function
• welfare loss

Data Source

Findings:

• Reducing emissions by 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020 saves 226 lives in expectation from 2020 to 2100

Coding Reference:

• Not applicable