We study the United Nations Organization's Kyoto Protocol nations to address two questions. First of all, what are the environmental production efficiency rankings of these nations? Secondly, is there a relationship between a nation's ratification status and its environmental production...

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the benefit of reducing CO2 emissions by one ton today. As such it is a key input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates of the social cost of carbon from the integrated assessment model FUND 3.5...

The Alberta Court of Appeal recently released its decision in Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, Alberta’s challenge to the constitutionality of the federal government’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. Writing for a majority of three judges, Chief Justice Catherine...

The necessity for extensive historical data, variables, and weight determination still presents challenges and complexity, notwithstanding the growth in research on socio-ecological vulnerability to climate change. In order to fill in these gaps, this study uses China’s Fujian Province as a...