Appendix B

Presentations to the Committee

Washington, DC, September 2, 2015

• Sponsors’ Interests and Goals for the Study: Kenneth Gillingham, Council of Economic Advisers
• Methodology for the Social Cost of Carbon Estimates: Elizabeth Kopits, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Washington, DC, November 13, 2015

• Damage Models for Existing Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) and Areas of Research
  • Improving the damage portion of IAMs DICE model: Kenneth Gillingham and William Nordhaus, Yale University
  • FUND model: David Anthoff, University of California, Berkeley
  • PAGE model: Chris Hope, University of Cambridge
• Current State of Evidence and Approaches, Options for Integration into IAMs: Leon Clarke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sol Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley
• Current State of Evidence and Approaches, Future Research Needs: John Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University

Washington, DC, May 5, 2016

• Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) Overview: Katja Frieler, lead of the ISI-MIP project, Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Germany
• Costs of Perturbations and Feedbacks in the CO₂ and Methane Cycles: David Archer, University of Chicago
• Market and Nonmarket Damages Panel
  • A New Empirical Approach to Global Damage Function Estimation: Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago
  • Nonmarket Damages from Climate Change: Michael Hanemann, Arizona State University

Washington, DC, August 23, 2016

• Remarks and Q&A with several members of the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Elizabeth Kopits, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Alex Marten, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Elke Hodson, U.S. Department of Energy; Sheila Olmstead, Council of Economic Advisers