Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions
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Cap-and-Trade Climate Policies with Price-Regulated Industries: How Costly are Free Allowances?
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-07-10)We examine the impacts of alternative cap-and-trade allowance allocation designs in a model of the U.S. economy where price-regulated electric utilities generate 30% of total CO2 emissions. Our empirical model embeds a ... -
An Integrated Assessment Framework for Uncertainty Studies in Global and Regional Climate Change: The IGSM-CAM
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-06-18)This paper describes an integrated assessment framework for uncertainty studies in global and regional climate change. In this framework, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), ... -
Modeling Water Withdrawal and Consumption for Electricity Generation in the United States
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-06-15)Water withdrawals for thermoelectric cooling account for a significant portion of total water use in the United States. Any change in electrical energy generation policy and technologies has the potential to have a major ...
