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public comment period for the draft
document titled, ‘‘Technical
Documentation for the Framework for
Evaluating Damages and Impacts
(FrEDI)’’ (EPA 430–R–24–001). This
document provides technical
documentation of a Framework used to
analyze future climate change-related
impacts to the United States, projected
to occur across multiple impact sector
categories, geographic regions, and
populations, under any custom
temperature scenario. This approach
serves as an alternative or complement
to traditional scenario-based approaches
in order to improve communication of
results, comparability between studies,
and flexibility to facilitate scenario
analysis. The draft technical
documentation will also be subject to
external peer review. Prior to finalizing
the draft document, EPA intends to
carefully consider all comments
received from the public and from
external peer reviewers. This draft
document is not final as described in
EPA’s information quality guidelines
and does not represent and should not
be construed to represent Agency policy
or views. The draft document is
available via the internet on EPA’s web
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Characterizing the future risks of
climate change is a key goal of climate
impacts analysis. The Framework for
Evaluating Damages and Impacts
(FrEDI) is a reduced form approach,
implemented as an R package, that
synthesizes data from existing peerreviewed literature to project the
distributional impacts of climate change
to the U.S. through the end of the
century. This framework relies on
sectoral damages derived from existing
peer-reviewed studies, which are further
organized into an ‘impact by degree’
analytical framework for use within
FrEDI. Results from the FrEDI R package
can then be used to inform analyses of
climate change impacts to the U.S. to
better understand and communicate the
distributional impacts of climate change
over time, and across various sectors,
regions, and populations. The speed and
flexibility of this framework also
enables assessment of how projected
climate change impacts may change in
the future due to various adaptation or
emission mitigation scenarios. FrEDI
therefore fills an important gap in U.S.
climate change impact assessments by
synthesizing climate impact information
from a broad range of peer-reviewed
studies, while also having the flexibility
to assess future U.S. impacts under any
custom scenario.
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Director, Climate Change Division.
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Technical Documentation for the Framework for Evaluating Damages
and Impacts (FrEDI)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of document availability and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a 30-
day public comment period for the draft document titled, ``Technical
Documentation for the Framework for Evaluating Damages and Impacts
(FrEDI)'' (EPA 430-R-24-001). This document provides technical
documentation of a Framework used to analyze future climate change-
related impacts to the United States, projected to occur across
multiple impact sector categories, geographic regions, and populations,
under any custom temperature scenario. This approach serves as an
alternative or complement to traditional scenario-based approaches in
order to improve communication of results, comparability between
studies, and flexibility to facilitate scenario analysis. The draft
technical documentation will also be subject to external peer review.
Prior to finalizing the draft document, EPA intends to carefully
consider all comments received from the public and from external peer
reviewers. This draft document is not final as described in EPA's
information quality guidelines and does not represent and should not be
construed to represent Agency policy or views. The draft document is
available via the internet on EPA's web page at https://www.epa.gov/cira/2024-draft-fredi-td.
DATES: To ensure your comments are considered for the final version of
the document, please submit your comments by March 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2023-0614, to the Federal Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted,
comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. Do not submit electronically
any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information
(CBI). EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket,
submitted, or sent via email. For additional submission methods, the
full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI, and general
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeremy Martinich, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Atmospheric
Protection, Climate Change Division, (202) 343-9871, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Characterizing the future risks of climate
change is a key goal of climate impacts analysis. The Framework for
Evaluating Damages and Impacts (FrEDI) is a reduced form approach,
implemented as an R package, that synthesizes data from existing peer-
reviewed literature to project the distributional impacts of climate
change to the U.S. through the end of the century. This framework
relies on sectoral damages derived from existing peer-reviewed studies,
which are further organized into an `impact by degree' analytical
framework for use within FrEDI. Results from the FrEDI R package can
then be used to inform analyses of climate change impacts to the U.S.
to better understand and communicate the distributional impacts of
climate change over time, and across various sectors, regions, and
populations. The speed and flexibility of this framework also enables
assessment of how projected climate change impacts may change in the
future due to various adaptation or emission mitigation scenarios.
FrEDI therefore fills an important gap in U.S. climate change impact
assessments by synthesizing climate impact information from a broad
range of peer-reviewed studies, while also having the flexibility to
assess future U.S. impacts under any custom scenario.
Sharyn Lie,
Director, Climate Change Division.
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