Climate Casino is an accessible introduction on integrated modelling and, regardless of your viewpoint, offers a clear understanding of how traditional economics deals with climate change.

A report commissioned by the UK government and led by economist Lord Nicholas Stern, published in 2007, ‘The Stern Review’ was a landmark report that used the same cost-benefit (IAM) analysis framework developed by William Nordhaus, but concluded that immediate and decisive action on climate change is the best economic pathway.

This is an extremely detailed and comprehensive book on estimating the discount rate required to bring future climate damages into the equivalent of today’s money or evaluating investment decisions.