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Climate Change and the Energy Transition

W - B Term, 8:30 to 11:45 AM Credit hours: 1.5 Location: Geffen-570 Method of Instruction: In Person For better or worse, climate change is already affecting American and global business. Some...

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Climate Policy

W, 8:30 to 11:45 AM Credit hours: 3.0 Method of Instruction: In Person Climate change is the world’s most perfect public policy problem: it’s more global, more long-term, more uncertain, and more...

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Decarbonizing voestalpine High-Performance Metal

Voestalpine, the Austria-based global leading steel manufacturing division of High Performance Metals, has made a bold commitment. It would achieve climate neutrality by 2050, with chief...

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Clean Core Thorium Energy and the Role of Nuclear Power in the Low-carbon...

In the landscape of low carbon sources of energy, nuclear power stands out as an option that has generated increasing attention and capital investment. Since 2001, nuclear energy production has been...

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Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset

Abstract: We develop a financial-economic model for carbon pricing with an explicit representation of decision making under risk and uncertainty that is consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on...

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Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural...

Abstract: Estimating the cost from a ton of CO2 to society requires connecting a model of the climate system with representation of the economic and social effect of changes in climate and the...

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The costs of “costless” climate mitigation

How much will it cost to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a global scale? The answer is critical for assessments of how to address climate change—affecting public support,...

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Presenting balanced geoengineering information has little effect on...

Abstract: ‘Moral hazard’ links geoengineering to mitigation via the fear that either solar geoengineering (solar radiation management, SRM) or carbon dioxide removal (CDR) might crowd out the desire...

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Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies

The United States recently passed major federal laws supporting the energy transition, and analyses suggest that their successful implementation could reduce US emissions more than 40% below 2005...

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Electra: Decarbonizing steelmaking through carbon-free iron

Electra Steel is Sandeep Nijhawan’s brainchild to decarbonize the process of making steel by creating green iron ore. The incumbent steel industry is a big offender when it comes to greenhouse gases,...

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