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Alan Lowenthal: “The SCC, or the social cost of carbon, is derived by estimating the cost of the damage to society of emitting a single…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2015
The SCC, or the social cost of carbon, is derived by estimating the cost of the damage to society of emitting a single metric ton of carbon dioxide.
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Alan Lowenthal
Democratic · California

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Lowenthal explains how the social cost of carbon is calculated.

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