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| Data: | Adjusted savings carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | NY.ADJ.DCO2.GN.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: Adjusted savings & income | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Carbon dioxide damage is estimated to be $20 per ton of carbon (the unit damage in 1995 U.S. dollars) times the number of tons of carbon emitted. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | 0 | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | World Bank staff estimates based on Samuel Fankhauser's "Valuing Climate Change: The Economics of the Greenhouse" (1995). | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Pollution damage from emissions of carbon dioxide is calculated as the marginal social cost per unit multiplied by the increase in the stock of carbon dioxide. The unit damage figure represents the present value of global damage to economic assets and to human welfare over the time the unit of pollution remains in the atmosphere. | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
