O dano econômico do aquecimento global: uma revisão da metodologia de cálculo e dos parâmetros e procedimentos fundamentais que afetam a sua estimação

Abstract

The economic damages caused by the global warming are used expressed in a percentage loss of the gross domestic product or as a ratio of world output or even by the absolute value of certain monetary units. Generally, no much attention is given to the estimation methodology or calculation process itself. More detailed analysis of this process (damage valuation) shows that a lot of factors can contribute to the increase or decrease of the economic amount damage: externalities which are not included in the calculation, simplification, extrapolation, per capita income correction (in the form of equity weighting), and choice of discounting rates. The aim of this work is to do a review of that estimation methodology, pointing out the way, sequence, key parameters and procedures that have influence over the total amount of the economic damage, caused by the global warming