Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

The mortality cost of carbon

  • R. Daniel Bressler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24487-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Climate change is expected to have impacts on human mortality, e.g. through increases in heat waves. Here, the author proposes a new metric to account for excess deaths from additional CO2 emissions, which allows to assess the mortality impacts of marginal emissions and leads to a substantial increase in the social costs of carbon.