News + Media: Climate Policy
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Jan 01, 2017
The European Union could meet its climate goals and save billions of Euro by extending its emissions trading system to include the private transportation sector.
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Student Spotlight
Dec 27, 2016
“What we’re trying to do is to use data sources and methods that other people have not used, and that are more flexible and sophisticated, to do this estimation,” says Kishimoto, who is pursuing this research in preparation for his PhD thesis.
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News Release
Dec 12, 2016
In 17 talks and posters, Joint Program researchers present global and regional analyses at the AGU’s annual fall meeting
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News Release
Dec 07, 2016
New book chapter highlights the Joint Program’s approach to representing land use in global computable general equilibrium models
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