Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Oil Prices on Bioenergy, Emissions and Land Use
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-10)We evaluate how alternative future oil prices will influence the penetration of biofuels, energy production, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, land use and other outcomes. Our analysis employs a global economy wide model and ... -
Scaling Compliance with Coverage? Firm-level Performance in China’s Industrial Energy Conservation Program
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-10)Industrial energy conservation programs in China form a cornerstone of China’s energy and environmental management efforts, engaging thousands of major energy-using enterprises, and targeting hundreds of million tons of ... -
21st Century Changes in U.S. Heavy Precipitation Frequency Based on Resolved Atmospheric Patterns
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-10)Gridded precipitation-gauge observations and global atmospheric reanalysis are combined to develop an analogue method for detecting the occurrence of heavy precipitation events based on the prevailing large-scale atmospheric ...
