To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy

Wei Peng (), Gokul Iyer, Matthew Binsted, Jennifer Marlon, Leon Clarke, James A. Edmonds and David G. Victor
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Wei Peng: Pennsylvania State University
Gokul Iyer: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Matthew Binsted: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jennifer Marlon: Yale University
Leon Clarke: University of Maryland
James A. Edmonds: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David G. Victor: University of California San Diego

Nature Climate Change, 2021, vol. 11, issue 11, 911-912

Abstract: Using a multi-sector model of human and natural systems, we find that the nationwide cost from state-varying climate policy in the United States is only one-tenth higher than that of nationally uniform policy. The benefits of state-led action — leadership, experimentation and the practical reality that states implement policy more reliably than the federal government — do not necessarily come with a high economic cost.

Date: 2021
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