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William Nordhaus, Nobel-winning climate economist, has died

Original: William Nordhaus has died

William Nordhaus, the Yale economist who won the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for integrating climate change into long-run economic analysis, has died. Yale announced his death, remembering him as a scholar who devoted his career to the university and to the economics of climate. Nordhaus developed the DICE model linking economic growth and carbon emissions, shaping decades of climate policy debate.

Why now: The death of a Nobel laureate whose work defined climate economics prompts widespread discussion and tributes.

William NordhausYale UniversityNobel Prize

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