Valuing Health Impacts In Climate Policy: Ethical Issues And Economic Challenges.

ABSTRACT: Deciding which climate policies to enact, and where and when to enact them, requires weighing their costs against the expected benefits. A key challenge in climate policy is how to value health impacts, which are likely to be large and varied, considering that they will accrue over long time horizons (centuries), will occur throughout the world, and will be distributed unevenly within countries depending in part on socioeconomic status. These features raise a number of important economic and ethical issues including how to value human life in different countries at different levels of development, how to value future people, and how much priority to give the poor and disadvantaged. In this article we review each of these issues, describe different approaches for addressing them in quantita

SUBMITTER: Scovronick N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891186 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature