Carbon‐neutral pathways for the United States

JH Williams, RA Jones, B Haley, G Kwok… - AGU …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5° C points to the need for carbon neutrality by mid‐century. Achieving this in …

A framework for national scenarios with varying emission reductions

S Fujimori, V Krey, D van Vuuren, K Oshiro… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
National-level climate actions will be vital in achieving global temperature goals in the
coming decades. Near-term (2025–2030) plans are laid out in Nationally Determined …

On the economics of a carbon tax for the United States

GE Metcalf - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
Climate change is driven by the buildup of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere,
which is predominantly the result of the world's consumption of fossil fuels. GHGs are a …

Electrification and decarbonization: exploring US energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in scenarios with widespread electrification and power sector …

D Steinberg, D Bielen, J Eichman, K Eurek, J Logan… - 2017 - osti.gov
Electrification of end-use services in the transportation, buildings, and industrial sectors
coupled with decarbonization of electricity generation has been identified as one of the key …

Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US

Y Ou, JJ West, SJ Smith, CG Nolte… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) from fuel combustion significantly contributes to
global and US mortality. Traditional control strategies typically reduce emissions for specific …

Economic and technical challenges of flexible operations under large-scale variable renewable deployment

JE Bistline - Energy Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Fundamental characteristics of solar and wind power have generated controversy about
their economic competitiveness and appropriate techniques for assessing their value. This …

Interactions of wind energy project siting, wind resource potential, and the evolution of the US power system

T Mai, A Lopez, M Mowers, E Lantz - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The interactions of wind energy project siting, resource potential, and power system
evolution are critical to understand given interest in high renewable energy systems …

How big is the energy efficiency resource?

AB Lovins - Environmental Research Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Most economic theorists assume that energy efficiency—the biggest global provider of
energy services—is a limited and dwindling resource whose price-and policy-driven …

Endogenous technological change and the policy mix in renewable power generation

KS Wiebe, C Lutz - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the renewable power generation module, which complements large
scale macro-econometric input–output models by introducing technological change …

[HTML][HTML] Japan's long-term climate mitigation policy: multi-model assessment and sectoral challenges

M Sugiyama, S Fujimori, K Wada, S Endo, Y Fujii… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Japan is the sixth largest greenhouse gas emitter in 2016 and plays an important role to
attain the long-term climate goals of the Paris Agreement. One of the key policy issues in …