In this work, nonlinear pollution absorption, emission rate, and effectiveness of abatement technology are incorporated into the classic overlapping generation model. Within this framework, we analyze the macroeconomic effects of pollution emission and abatement technology on the economy. Our findings reveal that different levels of pollution emission rates from per capita income and the effect...

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...

The authors present a graphical framework to evaluate the implied CO2 abatement costs that can be used by policymakers and resource planners to provide clarity on cost-effective policy design, and on the implications of planning decisions for meeting future de-carbonization goals. The framework would allow for comparison of alternative investments, while distinguishing the extent, type and timi...

Abstract While society increasingly demands emissions abatement from the livestock sector, farmers are concurrently being forced to adapt an existential climate crisis. Here, we examine how stacking together multiple systems adaptations impacts on productivity, profitability and greenhouse gas (GHG) of production under future climates underpinned by more frequent extreme weather events. Without...

Five attributes of emission generating technologies are identified and a concept of byproduction is introduced, which implies these five attributes. Murty and Russell [2010] characterization of technologies, which requires distinguishing between intended production of firms and nature’s laws of emission generation, is shown to be both necessary and sufficient for by-production. While intended p...

On a global scale agriculture and in particular enteric fermentation in ruminants is reported to produce about one fourth (21 to 25%) of the total anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4). Methane is produced during the anaerobic fermentation of hydrolyzed dietary carbohydrates in the rumen and represents an energy loss to the host besides contributing to emissions of greenhouse gases into the ...

The objective of this work was to study nutritional strategies for decreasing methane production by ruminants fed tropical diets, combining in vitro and in vivo methods. The in vitro approach was used to evaluate the dose effect of condensed tannins (CT) contained in leaves of Gliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala, and Manihot esculenta (39, 75, and 92 g CT/kg DM, respectively) on methane pr...