Peer-Reviewed Publications

Rennels, L., & Chasins, S. E. (2023). How Domain Experts Use an Embedded DSL. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 7(OOPSLA2), 1499-1530.

Tan, T., Rennels, L. & Parthum, B. (2024). The social costs of hydrofluorocarbons and the benefits from their expedited phase-down. Nature Climate Change.

Rennert, K., Errickson, F., Prest, B. C., Rennels, L., Newell, R. G., Pizer, W., ... & Anthoff, D. (2022). Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2. Nature, 610(7933), 687-692.

Wong, T. E., Ledna, C., Rennels, L., Sheets, H., Errickson, F. C., Diaz, D., & Anthoff, D. (2022). Sea Level and Socioeconomic Uncertainty Drives High‐End Coastal Adaptation Costs. Earth's Future, 10(12), e2022EF003061.

Wong, T. E., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Srikrishnan, V., Bakker, A., Keller, K., & Anthoff, D. (2022). MimiBRICK. jl: A Julia package for the BRICK model for sea-level change in the Mimi integrated modeling framework. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(76), 4556.

Rennert, K., Prest, B. C., Pizer, W. A., Newell, R. G., Anthoff, D., Kingdon, C., Rennels, L., ... & Errickson, F. (2021). The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

Melvin, A.M., Larsen, P., Boehlert, B., Neumann, J.E., Chinowsky, P., Espinet, X., Martinich, J., Baumann, M.S., Rennels, L., Bothner, A. and Nicolsky, D.J. (2017). Climate change damages to Alaska public infrastructure and the economics of proactive adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(2), E122-E131.

Chapra, S. C., Boehlert, B., Fant, C., Bierman Jr, V. J., Henderson, J., Mills, D., Mas, D., Rennels, L., Jantarasami, L., Martinich, J., Strzepek, K. M., Bierman, V., and Paerl, H. (2017). Climate change impacts on harmful algal blooms in US freshwaters: a screening-level assessment. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(16), 8933-8943.

Fant, C., Srinivasan, R., Boehlert, B., Rennels, L., Chapra, S. C., Strzepek, K. M., ... and Martinich, J. (2017). Climate change impacts on US water quality using two models: HAWQS and US basins. Water, 9(2), 118.

Larsen, P. H., Boehlert, B., Eto, J., Hamachi-LaCommare, K., Martinich, J., and Rennels, L. (2018). Projecting future costs to US electric utility customers from power interruptions. Energy, 147, 1256-1277.

Melvin, A. M., Murray, J., Boehlert, B., Martinich, J. A., Rennels, L., and Rupp, T. S. (2017). Estimating wildfire response costs in Alaska’s changing climate. Climatic Change, 141(4), 783-795.

Selected Papers in Preparation

Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Keller, K., Parthum, B., Smith, D., and Anthoff, A. Considering Robustness to Deep Uncertainties Drives More Rapid Emissions Reductions.

Prest, B.*, Rennels, L.*, Errickson, F., and Anthoff, A. US Government’s New Scienfitic Guidance to Address Distributional Equity in Benefit-Cost Analysis Greatly Increases the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide. Submitted to Science. * equal contribution.

Darnell, C., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Wong, T.E., & Srikrishnan, V. Rapid Decarbonization reduces but does not eliminate risk of extreme sea level rise due ot uncertain Antarctic Ice Sheet marine instability. Under Review at Nature.

Rennels., L and Anthoff, A. A Global Sensitivity Analysis of the Social Costs of Greenhouse Gases.

Bressler, D.R., Shimberg, N., Rennels, L., Parthum, B., Smith, D., Errickson, F., & Anthoff, D. Large Disproportional Mortality Impacts on Poor Countries Drive a Higher Equity Weighted Social Cost of CO2.

Anthoff, D., Errickson, F., Prest., B., Rennels., L., & Wingenroth, J.. Valuing biodiversity losses as part of the social cost of CO2..

Anthoff., D., Druup., M., Haensel., M., Moore., F.C., Rennels., L., Rising., J., & Schaumann., F. Structural Interactions in Integrated Assessment Models.

Errickson, F., Wong, T.E., Keller, K., Rennels, L., & Anthoff, D. Improved climate modeling reduces extreme social cost of carbon estimates Frank C. Errickson, Tony Wong, Klaus Keller, Lisa Rennels, & David Anthoff.

Presentations and Invited Talks

US government’s new guidance to address distributional concerns in benefit-cost analysis greatly increases the social cost of carbon dioxide. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference. Washington, DC. 2024. (forthcoming)

How Climate Economics Domain Experts Use an Embedded DSL. JuliaCon. Eindhoven, Netherlands. 2024. (forthcoming)

Estimating the Social Cost of Methane with the GIVE Model. Association of Environmental and Resource Econoists at OSWEET. Online. 2024.

GIVE and the Mimi Framework. The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Workshop on the Social Cost of Carbon. Online. 2024.

Keynote Speech: Building Open Source Software for Climate Change Research — Lessons Learned from Mimi.jl. Programming for the Planet (PROPL) at ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). London, UK. 2024.

How Domain Experts use an Embedded DSL. Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH OOPSLA). Cascais, Portugal. 2024.

How Domain Experts use an Embedded DSL.  UC Berkeley Effective Programming, Interaction, and Computation with Data (EPIC) Lab Retreat.  Berkeley, CA. 2024.

Building Open Source Software for Climate Change Research — Lessons Learned from Mimi.jl. NASA Ames Earth Science Division Seminar. San Jose, CA. 2023.

Estimating the Social Cost of Methane with the GIVE Model.  EAERE 2023. Limassol, Cyprus. 2023.

Equity Weighting and Risk Adjusting the Social Cost of Carbon. CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2023. Munich, Germany. 2023. (with David Anthoff)

Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL. 2022.

Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2. Invited Talk at Industrial Economics Inc. Remote. 2022.

Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2. Guest Lecture in Climate Change Economics (ENERES 176) Course. Berkeley, CA. 2022.

Mimi.jl – Next Generation Climate Economics Modeling. JuliaCon 2019. Baltimore, MD. July 25, 2019. (with Cora Kingdom)