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The Climate Impact Lab, a group of economists and scientists, estimates that without measures like widespread air conditioning, higher temperatures would lead to several hundred thousand added deaths by 2040.

"There's this incremental increase in costs that people are facing, where no one in the US, or no one in the world, is truly insulated from the economic consequences of...

“There are undoubtedly a series of procurement and legal issues that would have to be worked out,” said Michael Greenstone, an economist at the University of Chicago who helped the...

One answer to the plastic waste problem, according to a new EPIC-China study, lies in a technique that has stirred debate: the behavioral nudge.

“The way the rich countries are going to respond [to higher temperatures] is by spending more to protect ourselves, and in many parts of the world those opportunities don’t exist,”...

For the biggest polluters worldwide — the fossil fuel-dependent power industry — that means potential legal liabilities around seven times their annual profits, four economists, including EPIC's Director Michael Greenstone...

EPIC's Christian Leuz and his colleagues, including EPIC Director Michael Greenstone, used a private analysis firm that finds or estimates carbon emissions of some publicly owned companies and analyzed the...

A study published by EPIC Director Michael Greenstone and Christian Leuz at the University of Chicago has found that corporate emissions are undermining prosperity.