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The cost of a warming climate

A study finds that meeting climate-change mitigation targets will lead to a substantial reduction in economic damages. Here, economists present opposing views on the approach used by studies such as this one.
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  1. Wolfram Schlenker

    1. Wolfram Schlenker is at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.

  2. Maximilian Auffhammer

    1. Maximilian Auffhammer is in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

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Nature 557, 498-499 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05198-7

See Editorial Curbing global warming could save US$20 trillion

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