Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy: Recent submissions

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    • Unintended Environmental Consequences of a Global Biofuels Program 

      Melillo, Jerry M.; Gurgel, Angelo C.; Kicklighter, David W.; Reilly, John M.; Cronin, Timothy W.; e.a. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-01)
      Biofuels are being promoted as an important part of the global energy mix to meet the climate change challenge. The environmental costs of biofuels produced with current technologies at small scales have been studied, but ...

    • Sharing the Burden of GHG Reductions 

      Jacoby, Henry D.; Babiker, Mustafa M.H.; Paltsev, Sergey; Reilly, John M. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-11)
      The G8 countries propose a goal of a 50% reduction in global emissions by 2050, in an effort that needs to take account of other agreements specifying that developing countries are to be provided with incentives to action ...

    • Sensitivity of Climate Change Projections to Uncertainties in the Estimates of Observed Changes in Deep-Ocean Heat Content 

      Sokolov, Andrei P.; Forest, Chris Eliot; Stone, Peter H. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-11)
      The MIT 2D climate model is used to make probabilistic projections for changes in global mean surface temperature and for thermosteric sea level rise under a variety of forcing scenarios. The uncertainties in climate ...