Priority Area: Clean Energy and Building Decarbonization
Barrier: Investment Decisions

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Challenge

Social cost of carbon not applied in California decisions: Despite robust research on the health and economic damages per ton of emissions (lost workdays, health impacts, productivity losses), participants pointed out that California has not consistently integrated this metric into regulatory or program cost-benefit analyses, unlike a few other states

Region: Los Angeles

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