Ethics of the Discount Rate in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

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Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments (2011, background): “Resolving such debates is far from straightforward, however, and faces profound questions on which, to quote Beckerman and Hepburn (2007) “… reasonable minds may differ” (p198).”
Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After (2009, background): “There are signs that this may be beginning to change (see for example, Beckerman and Hepburn 2007).”
Risk aversion, time preference, and the social cost of carbon (2009, background): “Philosophers would likely confront this range by choosing a particular estimate based on what they deemed to be appropriate reflections of both parameters [3, 4, 12, 15].”
Benefits of invasion prevention: Effect of time lags, spread rates, and damage persistence (2015, background): “A similar issue has arisen for evaluating policies that affect other environmental problems, such as climate change, where damages occur long after the point in time when actions could have prevented them (Beckerman and Hepburn, 2007; Broome, 2008).”