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Future Yield Growth: What Evidence from Historical Data?
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-05)
The potential future role of biofuels has become an important topic in energy legislation as it is seen as a potential low carbon alternative to conventional fuels. Hence, future yield growth is an important topic from ...
Climate Co-benefits of Tighter SO2 and NOx Regulations in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-10-01)
Air pollution has been recognized as a significant problem in China. In its Twelfth Five Year Plan (FYP), China proposes to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions significantly, and here we investigate the cost of achieving those ...
Directed Technical Change and the Adoption of CO2 Abatement Technology: The Case of CO2 Capture and Storage
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2006-08)
This paper studies the cost effectiveness of combining traditional environmental policy, such as CO2 trading schemes, and technology policy that has aims of reducing the cost and speeding the adoption of CO2 abatement ...
The Cost of Kyoto Protocol Targets: The Case of Japan
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2004-07)
This paper applies the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model to analysis of the cost of the Kyoto Protocol targets, with a special focus on Japan. The analysis demonstrates the implications of the use ...
The Future of U.S. Natural Gas Production, Use, and Trade
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2010-06)
Two computable general equilibrium models, one global and the other providing U.S. regional detail, are applied to analysis of the future of U.S. natural gas as an input to an MIT study of the topic. The focus is on ...
Combining a Renewable Portfolio Standard with a Cap-and-Trade Policy: A General Equilibrium Analysis
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2010-07)
Many efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions combine a cap-and-trade system with other measures such as a renewable portfolio standard. In this paper we use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, the MIT Emissions ...
Biofuels, Climate Policy and the European Vehicle Fleet
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-08)
We examine the effect of biofuels mandates and climate policy on the European vehicle fleet, considering the prospects for diesel and gasoline vehicles. We use the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, ...
Analysis of Climate Policy Targets under Uncertainty
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-09)
Although policymaking in response to the climate change is essentially a challenge of risk management, most studies of the relation of emissions targets to desired climate outcomes are either deterministic or subject to a ...
Global Health and Economic Impacts of Future Ozone Pollution
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-08)
We assess the human health and economic impacts of projected 2000-2050 changes in ozone pollution using the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis-Health Effects (EPPA-HE) model, in combination with results from the ...
Stabilization and Global Climate Policy
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2004-07)
Academic and political debates over long-run climate policy often invoke “stabilization” of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but only rarely are non-CO2 greenhouse gases addressed explicitly. Even ...