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

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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.
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