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Why Carbon Pricing Falls Short
-equivalent emissions.” )) —policy makers can incentivize businesses and ... and permit trading system (Stavins 2008), is widely regarded as the least expensive and most market friendly way to drive down greenhouse gas
Cooling People, Not Spaces: Surmounting the Risks of Air-Conditioning Over-Reliance
, James R., Steven K. Fischer, and Van D. Baxter. 1997. Energy and Global ... unprecedented heat waves in North American history. Between March and May 2022, heatwaves spanning northwest India and Pakistan resulted in outdoor air
Leveraging Clean Energy to Alleviate Regional Water Stress
-to-green transition. The responsible, sustainable, and just retirement of legacy assets ... strategies for determining when and how to retire legacy power plant assets ... sources such as solar and wind. Typically, profitability has guided and
The Essential Role of Negative Emissions in Getting to Carbon Neutral
Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) concluded that 10 ... .S. annual emissions today and a quarter of global annual CO2 emissions. These ... by fossil fuel burning, agriculture, and land use changes as
The Key to Electric Grid Reliability: Modernizing Governance
Prepared for the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy ... the rise and the system’s reliability more frequently tested than ever before in the face of more frequent storms, heat waves, hurricanes, and the
Domenic Vitiello
and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design. He researches the history and contemporary practice of community and economic development; immigrant communities; and urban agriculture and food system
Shu Yang
Shu Yang is a professor of materials science and engineering and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is interested in developing novel materials
Siva Mathiyazhagan
Social Policy and Practice. He is also the Associate Director of Strategies and Impact at the SAFELab at Penn and RSM Assembly Fellows at the ... strategies and facilitates local-global partnerships to scale SAFELab
Serguei Netessine
Serguei Netessine is Senior Vice Dean of Innovation and Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at The Wharton
Energy Cost Burdens for Low-Income Households
major U.S. cities, and to link energy costs to savings opportunities for specific building types and attributes. We seek to address fundamental questions of how energy efficiency and energy cost vary by demographic and