- Most climate deaths will occur in developing countries, especially in slow-growth scenarios where adaptation is unaffordable. Framing climate change as an inequality problem —not an extinction risk— highlights the need for global aid, LMIC growth, and valuing all lives equally.
- What’s the most important choice in determining the social cost of carbon (SCC)? My #EconJMP shows that because deaths from emitting CO2 are large and concentrated in poor countries, valuing lives is the most consequential choice in determining the SCC in latest-gen models, more than discounting 🧵👇
