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2. What’s the Right Price for Carbon Emissions?

2. What’s the Right Price for Carbon Emissions?

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In today’s episode, Naomi and Casey speak with Nobel laureate William Nordhaus (a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale), Fran Moore (an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis), Howard Shelanski (a Law Professor at Georgetown University and former White House administrator), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (US Senator from RI). They seek to understand the theory behind the “social cost of carbon”: the economic backbone of all carbon pricing schemes.

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2. What’s the Right Price for Carbon Emissions?

2. What’s the Right Price for Carbon Emissions?

Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Yale Carbon Charge, and Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy