Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions
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Impacts of Land Use and Biofuels Policy on Climate: Temperature and Localized Impacts
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-08-06)The impact on climate of future land use and energy policy scenarios is explored using two landuse frameworks: (i) Pure Cost Conversion Response (PCCR), or 'extensification', where the price of land is the only constraint ... -
The Economic, Energy, and GHG Emissions Impacts of Proposed 2017–2025 Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards in the United States
(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 ... -
Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Clean and Renewable Energy Standards for Electricity
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-07-17)We examine the efficiency and distributional impacts of greenhouse gas policies directed toward the electricity sector in a model that links a “top-down” general equilibrium representation of the U.S. economy with a ...
