Levy Economics Institute, Environmental and Urban Studies Program, and Economics Program Present
"What's the Cost of Climate Change? How to improve the Social Cost of Carbon."
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Hegeman 102
Peter Howard, Ph.D.
Peter Howard is the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council Climate Valuation Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, where his research focused on climate change, environmental policy, and agricultural policy. Howard also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College. He most recently wrote “Omitted Damages: What’s Missing from the Social Cost of Carbon” and "Flammable Planet: Wildfires and the Social Cost of Carbon," in which he examines the Integrated Assessment Models used to produce the U.S. social cost of carbon estimate. He also co-authored for Nature journal “Global Warming: Improve Economic Models of Climate Change,” along with Policy Integrity Director Richard Revesz, economist Kenneth Arrow, and others. In addition, he co-authored several report for the California Department of Food and Agriculture estimating the costs of various pesticide regulations in California.
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Location: Hegeman 102