Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions
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Expectations for a New Climate Agreement
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-08)With the objective of stimulating timely and open discussion of the current attempt to formulate a new climate agreement—to be reached at the 21st meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP-21) in Paris during November of ... -
Markets versus Regulation: The Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of U.S. Climate Policy Proposals
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-05)Regulatory measures have proven the favored approach to climate change mitigation in the U.S., while market-based policies have gained little traction. Using a model that resolves the U.S. economy by region, income category, ... -
Electricity Generation and Emissions Reduction Decisions under Policy Uncertainty: A General Equilibrium Analysis
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-04)The electric power sector, which accounts for approximately 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, will be a critical component of any policy the U.S. government pursues to confront climate change. In the context of uncertainty ...
