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Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is an international, non-partisan, grassroots organization committed to creating the political will for a livable world. CCL strives to create that will by empowering citizens to exercise their citizenship to its maximum extent. Their reach is vast, with volunteers in every U.S. state and Canadian province. They have additionally established international chapters in Australia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Germany, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Nepal, Panama, Scotland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Zambia…

This chapter describes how economic models are used to answer questions about policy changes, specifically in the context of a carbon fee-and-dividend system. A carbon fee-and-dividend is a price on carbon dioxide emissions that returns the revenues gained to ordinary households in the form of a monthly check. The chapter describes, in nontechnical terms, the economic models and modeling processes involved and how they are similar and different from climate models…