Country-level social cost of carbon

@article{Ricke2018CountrylevelSC,
  title={Country-level social cost of carbon},
  author={Katharine L Ricke and Laurent Drouet and Ken Caldeira and Massimo Tavoni},
  journal={Nature Climate Change},
  year={2018},
  volume={8},
  pages={895-900}
}
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach obscures the heterogeneous geography of climate damage and vast differences in country-level contributions to the global SCC, as well as climate and socio-economic uncertainties, which are larger at the regional level. Here we estimate country-level contributions to the SCC using recent climate… 
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