Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Laissez faire, collective control or nationalization of the global commons 

      Eckaus, Richard S. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1992)
      The use of the atmosphere as a dumping place for greenhouse gases has been a matter of laissez faire. Proposals for international agreement to restrict the rate of such emissions are, in effect, proposals for collectively ...

    • Comparing greenhouse gases for policy purposes 

      Schmalensee, Richard (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1993)
      In order to derive optimal policies for greenhouse gas emissions control, the discounted marginal damages of emissions of different gases must be compared. The greenhouse warming potential (GWP) index, which is most often ...

    • Energy and environmental policy and electric utilities' choice under uncertain global warming 

      Takahashi, Masaki (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1992)
      The paper reviews and discusses uncertainty about global warming science, impact on society. It also discusses what assumptions have been made and how appropriate the assumptions in scenarios have been for estimating global ...