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Dr. John M. Reilly

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Affiliation(s):

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Associate Director;
MIT Sloan School of Management;
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

Education:

B.S., Economics and Political Science, University of Wisconsin, 1976
M.S., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1983

Biographical Statement:

John Reilly is an energy, environmental, and agricultural economist focused on understanding the role of human activities as a contributor to global environmental change and the effects of environmental change on society and the economy. A key element of his work is the integration of economic models of the global economy as it represents human activity with models of biophysical systems including the ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial vegetation. By understanding the complex interactions of human society with our planet, the goal is to aid in the design of policies that can effectively limit the contribution of human activity to environmental change, to facilitate adaptation to unavoidable change, and to understand the consequences of the deployment of large scale energy systems that will be needed to meet growing energy needs.

Selected Publications:

Otto, V.M., and J. Reilly, 2008: Directed technical change and the adoption of CO2 abatement technology: The case of CO2 capture and storage. Energy Economics, 30(6): 2879–2898

Paltsev, S., J.M. Reilly, H.D. Jacoby, A.C. Gurgel, G.E. Metcalf, A.P. Sokolov and J.F. Holak, 2008: Assessment of US GHG cap-and-trade proposals, Climate Policy, 8(4): 395-420

Reilly, J., S. Paltsev, B. Felzer, X. Wang, D. Kicklighter, J. Melillo, R. Prinn, M. Sarofim, C. Wang, 2007: Global economic effects of changes in crops, pasture, and forests due to changing climate, carbon dioxide, and ozone. Energy Policy, 35(11): 5370-5383

Reilly, J.M., and M.O. Asadoorian, 2007: Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from land use: creating incentives within greenhouse gas emissions trading systems. Climatic Change, 80(1-2): 173-197

Paltsev, S., J.M. Reilly, H.D. Jacoby & K.H. Tay, 2007: How (and why) do climate policy costs differ among countries? in: Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, (M. Schlesinger, H. Kheshgi, J. Smith, F. de la Chesnay, J. Reilly, T. Wilson, C. Kolstad, editors), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK; Chapter 23, pp. 282-293

Reilly, J., M. Sarofim, S. Paltsev and R.G. Prinn, 2006: The role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases in climate policy: Analysis using the MIT IGSM. Energy Journal, Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Climate Policy, Special Issue #3, pp. 503-520

Felzer, B., J. Reilly, J. Melillo, D. Kicklighter, M. Sarofim, C. Wang, R. Prinn and Q. Zhuang, 2005: Future effects of ozone on carbon sequestration and climate change policy using a global biogeochemical model. Climatic Change, 73(3): 345-373

Reilly, J., P.H. Stone, C.E. Forest, M.D. Webster, H.D. Jacoby and R.G. Prinn, 2001: Uncertainty and climate change assessments. Science, 293(5529): 430-433

Reilly, J., R. Prinn, J. Harnisch, J. Fitzmaurice, H. Jacoby, D. Kicklighter, J. Melillo, P. Stone, A. Sokolov, C. Wang, 1999: Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol. Nature, 401: 549-555

Projects:

Global Effects of Human and Terrestrial Interactions
Integrated Assessment Multiple Greenhouse Gases, Climate Impacts, and Pollution
Dynamic Modeling of Emissions from Land-Use Activities
Land use-Ecosystem-Climate Interactions in Monsoon Asia
Development of a Model of the U.S. Economy
Analytic Support for the MIT Natural Gas Study
Biofuel Trade-Offs: Fuel, Forests, and Food
Analytic Support for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Renewable Electricity Futures Study