As businesses shift towards pursuing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) means, abatement costs play a large role in discouraging companies from leniency on their environmental greenhouse gas emissions.

Well-being can be understood as how people feel and how they function, both on a personal and a social level, and how they evaluate their lives as a whole.

A central issue in economics concerns how output (equivalent to income) is distributed across economic agents (e.g., workers, entrepreneurs).

Climate change represents a significant consequence of accelerated economic growth.