Industrial energy efficiency and climate change mitigation

Combating Climate Change: The Role of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. Climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...

Climate change mitigation through CDM - Bioenergy Technology and Energy Efficiency in the Steel Industry

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges to sustainable development facing the international community. Increased attention has been given by industries and governments from both industrialized and developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the clean development mechanism (CDM), one of the Kyoto Protocol’s (KP) flexible mechanisms. China is the biggest...

Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture

Dissertation Directed By : ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

Title of Dissertation: Dissertation Directed By: ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION Haewon C. McJeon, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Professor Matthias Ruth School of Public Policy This dissertation examines the role that technology plays in climate change mitigation. It contains three essays each focusing on different aspects of the process in which advancements in low-car...

Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation†

We model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a dynamic game. Countries’ emissions increase atmospheric concentrations of GHG, which negatively affects all countries' welfare. We analyze self-enforcing climate-change treaties that are supportable as subgame perfect equilibria. A simulation model illustrates conditions where a subgame perfect equilibrium supports the first-best outcome. In one of o...