Climate change is one of the greatest risks facing humanity. However, most of what we know about its economic impacts come from models that were developed before the modern empirical literature on climate impacts emerged. This new literature has been…

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Lab co-director Michael Greenstone and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein defend the process and output of the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon. Any effort to eliminate…

Under the Trump administration, federal agencies are no longer required to determine the financial costs of climate change, so a group of scientists have stepped up to the plate. Marketplace reports on our project and what it can tell us…