Posts Tagged ‘
carbon ’
May 18th, 2012 |
By Marisa O'Donnell
New York’s failed plan for congestion pricing has lessons for policymakers everywhere.
Posted in Energy & Environment, Research in Brief, Urban Affairs |
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Tags: carbon, Chicago, Cities, Climate Change, CO2, congestion, Congestion Pricing, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Los Angeles, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, NYC, PlaNYC, Traffic, Transport Policy, transportation, Urban, Urban Affairs, urban transportation
Apr 30th, 2012 |
By Evan Johnson
A researcher evaluates two lesser-known methods to spur renewable energy production. He finds them wanting.
Posted in Energy & Environment, Research in Brief |
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Tags: carbon, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, Electricity, Energy Subsidies, Feed-In Tariffs, Loan Guarantee, MIT Sloan School of Management, Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Technology, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Renewables, Richard Schmalensee, Subsidies, Wind Power
Mar 30th, 2012 |
By Abigail Mackenzie Kerl
The business of food is bad for the planet. But the problem isn’t just a first-world one.
Posted in Energy & Environment, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Agriculture, Animal Products, carbon, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, carbon tax, Climate Change, CO2, Development, Environment, Food, GHGs, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Hamburgers, Health, International Development, Sustainability, Tara Garnett, University of Surrey
Mar 19th, 2012 |
By Aman Chitkara
GDP-linked carbon intensity targets lure wary parties to the climate negotiating table. But are these targets any more than a tease?
Posted in Energy & Environment, International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: carbon, carbon market, carbon tax, China, Development, emmision reduction, emmision targets, Energy, Environment, ETS Cap and Trade, fossil fuels, India, intensity targets, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Development, IPCC, Ottmar Edenhofer, Robert Marchinski, Sustainability
Feb 16th, 2012 |
By Sam Ori
An energy policy analyst walks us through the muck on the Keystone Pipeline.
Posted in Energy & Environment, Policy in Practice |
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Tags: alberta, canadian oil sands, carbon, carbon tax, Climate Change, cushing, Dependence on foreign oil, economic security, Electrification Coalition, Electrification Roadmap, Energy, Environment, Fleet Electrification Roadmap, Global Warming, Illinois, keystone pipeline, Keystone XL, nebraska, Obama, oil sands, oklahoma, pipeline, port arthur, President Obama, republicans, SAFE, Sam Ori, Securing America's Future, Self-Reliance, steele city, transcanada corporation, Transfers
Dec 4th, 2011 |
By Bradley Crawford
MIT’s Howard J. Herzog explores the central issues involved in transforming carbon capture and storage (CCS) from a boutique technology to a broadly commercial one.
Posted in Energy & Environment, Research in Brief |
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Tags: carbon, carbon capture, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Pricing, carbon tax, CCS, Climate Change, CO2, Global Warming, Howard Herzog, MIT