The economically optimal warming limit of the planet

Ueckerdt, Falko; Frieler, Katja; Lange, Stefan; Wenz, Leonie; Luderer, Gunnar; Levermann, Anders

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-741-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-741-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-741-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Research article

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18 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 18 Nov 2019

The economically optimal warming limit of the planet

Falko Ueckerdt, Katja Frieler, Stefan Lange, Leonie Wenz, Gunnar Luderer, and Anders Levermann

Data sets

Climate change impact and mitigation data - The economically optimal warming limit of the planet F. Ueckerdt https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3541809

Short summary

We compute the global mean temperature increase at which the costs from climate-change damages and climate-change mitigation are minimal. This temperature is computed robustly around 2 degrees of global warming across a wide range of normative assumptions on the valuation of future welfare and inequality aversion.