A new study from the Columbia University Institute introduces a new measure: the amount of carbon per
Authors: Daniel Bressler, Ph.D.Columbia University, concluded that current estimates of emissions excesses, which are shown as economic costs, do not sufficiently reflect the real state of affairs.
Although recent studies show how climate change will cause millions of premature deaths, these estimates are based on outdated data.
The new method, the authors write, specifically shows how individual enterprises, depending on their own decisions, will or will not kill a certain number of people.
During the work, the authors assessed the impact of the changesclimate on mortality based on several key health studies. It also only counted deaths directly from the effects of climate change, such as high temperatures, and did not take into account possible deaths from storms, floods, crop failures, infectious diseases or wars.
Assuming that emissions continue to rise, the authors arrive at a figure of 0.000226 excess deaths this century per metric tonne of carbon dioxide emitted in excess of current emissions.
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