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March 4, 2021

With the U.S. re-entering the Paris Agreement on Climate, Purdue researchers, Maksym Chepeliev and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, consider the economic consequences for the US economy. Their findings show economic costs can be moderated (and inequality reduced) under a cooperative approach to meeting carbon reduction targets. A link to the full article is below.

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U.S. Climate Policy Revisited: Macroeconomic and Distributional Impacts of the Paris Agreement

Authors: Maksym Chepeliev, Research Economist; and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Director and Research Professor

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