Browsing Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Reports by Author "Karplus, Valerie"

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    • The Economic, Energy, and GHG Emissions Impacts of Proposed 2017–2025 Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards in the United States 

      Karplus, Valerie; Paltsev, Sergey (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-07-31)
      Increases in the U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards for 2017 to 2025 model year light-duty vehicles are currently under consideration. This analysis uses an economy-wide model with detail in the passenger ...

    • The Energy and Economic Impacts of Expanding International Emissions Trading 

      Qi, Tianyu; Winchester, Niven; Karplus, Valerie; Zhang, Xiliang (MIT Joint Program, 2013-08-21)
      Emissions trading systems are recognized as a cost-effective way to facilitate emissions abatement and are expected to play an important role in international cooperation for global climate mitigation. Starting from the ...

    • Interprovincial Migration and the Stringency of Energy Policy in China 

      Luo, Xiaohu; Zhang, Da; Caron, Justin; Zhang, Xiliang; Karplus, Valerie (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-12-02)
      Interprovincial migration flows involve substantial relocation of people and productive activity, with implications for regional energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. In China, these flows are not explicitly considered ...

    • Quantifying Regional Economic Impacts of CO2 Intensity Targets in China 

      Zhang, Da; Rausch, Sebastian; Karplus, Valerie; Zhang, Xiliang (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-09-01)
      To address rising energy use and CO2 emissions, China’s leadership has enacted energy and CO2 intensity targets under the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015), which are defined at both the national and provincial levels. ...