Accounting for Ecosystem Service Values in Climate Policy

In a comment for Nature Climate Change, RFF Fellow Hannah Druckenmiller reflects on the need to incorporate the ecosystem impacts of climate change into the social cost of carbon.

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Date

June 27, 2022

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Hannah Druckenmiller

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Journal Article in Nature Climate Change

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1 minute

Ecosystem services are often omitted from climate policy owing to difficulties in estimating the economic value of climate-driven ecosystem changes. However, recent advances in data and methods can help us overcome these challenges and move towards a more comprehensive accounting of climate impacts.

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Hannah Druckenmiller

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Hannah Druckenmiller is an environmental economist and fellow at RFF. er research aims to provide empirically based estimates for the environmental benefits and economic costs associated with natural resource protection.

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