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Climate Change Taxes and Energy Efficiency in Japan
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2005-05)
In 2003 Japan proposed a Climate Change Tax to reduce its CO2 emissions to the level required by the Kyoto Protocol. If implemented, the tax would be levied on fossil fuel use and the revenue distributed to several sectors ...
Potential Land Use Implications of a Global Biofuels Industry
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-03)
In this paper we investigate the potential production and implications of a global biofuels industry. We
develop alternative approaches to the introduction of land as an economic factor input, in value and
physical terms, ...
Global Economic Effects of Changes in Crops, Pasture, and Forests due to Changing Climate, Carbon Dioxide, and Ozone
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2007-05)
Multiple environmental changes will have consequences for global vegetation. To the extent that crop yields and pasture and forest productivity are affected there can be important economic consequences. We examine the ...
Modeling the Prospects for Hydrogen Powered Transportation Through 2100
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-02)
Hydrogen fueled transportation has been proposed as a low carbon alternative to the current gasoline-powered
fleet. Using a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy we explore the
economic viability of ...
Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-04)
The U.S. Congress is considering a set of bills designed to limit the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. Several of these proposals call for a cap-and-trade system; others propose an emissions tax.
This paper ...
MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) Version 2: Model Description and Baseline Evaluation
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2005-07)
The MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) is designed for analyzing the global environmental changes that may result from anthropogenic causes, quantifying the uncertainties associated with the projected changes, and ...
Emissions trading to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States : the McCain-Lieberman Proposal
(2003-06)
The Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 (S. 139) is the most detailed effort to date to design an economy-wide cap-and-trade system for US greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The Act caps sectors at their 2000 emissions in ...
Air Pollution Health Effects: Toward an Integrated Assessment
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2004-07)
Scientists and policy makers have become increasingly aware of the need to jointly study climate change and air pollution because of the interactions among policy measures and in the atmospheric chemistry that creates the ...
Russia's role in the Kyoto Protocol
(2003-06)
As a result of the allocation of emissions reductions, and the differential willingness of countries to ratify, it turns out that Russia is a central player in the Kyoto Protocol. With the U.S. out and Japan and the EU ...
The Role of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases in Climate Policy: Analysis Using the MIT IGSM
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2004-08)
First steps toward a broad climate agreement, such as the Kyoto Protocol, have focused attention on agreement with less than global geographic coverage. We consider instead a policy that is less comprehensive in term of ...