How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions. Background Paper

摘要

CBOs methodology for estimating the costs of mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions draws on a wide range of public and private sources for data and analysis and involves a relatively simple framework that can be used to evaluate a wide variety of proposed policies. The framework can be adjusted to take into account changes in projections of emissions, other important economic assumptions, and science and policy parameters. In preparing its cost estimates, CBO uses estimates of mitigation costs that, by construction, are in the middle of the range of estimates produced by current state-of the- art energy-economy models.