assumptions concerning the pure rate of time preference, the social welfare aggregator and the extent of climate damages. We focus …

This paper estimates the welfare-optimal market share of wind and solar power, explicitly taking into account their …

reduction in current consumption that produces a loss in social welfare equivalent to that caused by the emission of a ton of CO …2. The standard approach is to calculate the SCC using a discounted-utilitarian social welfare function (SWF)-one that … welfare economics, but has been, thus far, little used in climate scholarship. The core idea is to give greater weight to well …