Transcript EcoNorthwest Presentation

Economic Costs to Oregon and
Washington of a Business-as-Usual
Approach to Climate Change
Mark Buckley
ECONorthwest
July 15, 2009
Methods
• Funded and Directed by Climate Leadership Initiative
of University of Oregon and Oregon State University
• Survey literature on impacts of climate change at
state-level
• Utilized economic data for prices, geography, area,
damages, etc. to project costs
• Costs projected for 2020, 2040, and 2080
• Does not include adaptation or mitigation
• Does not directly align as an avoided cost for any
particular policy
• Reports available:
• http://www.uoregon.edu/~climlead/programs/climate_e
conomics.html
• Mark Buckley – [email protected]