Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change Workshop:
Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: Cost-Benefit
Analysis and Beyond Based on decades of research by the
scientific community, there is now wide recognition that
emissions of greenhouse gases are changing our climate and that
the future impacts from such changes will largely be harmful. In
response, policymakers across the U.S. government are beginning
to consider what actions should be taken to limit climate change
damages. An important tool used in making such policy choices is
cost-benefit analysis (CBA), but this technique has been widely
criticized as inadequate as the primary approach to valuing the
impacts of climate change. In March 2009, the Pew Center on
Global Climate Change convened an expert workshop to examine the
state of the art, limitations, and future development needs for
analyzing the benefits of avoided climate change. Approximately
80 people from academe, federal agencies, and nongovernmental
organizations participa