With climate change underway, mitigation and adaptation strategies are required to limit the impacts of future climate change on food, water and energy. While a large number of studies have been devoted to understanding and simulating future climate impacts, they generally rely on a small ensemble of climate simulations and do not consider all major sources of uncertainty in future projections of regional climate change.
This webinar reviewed the current status of fuel economy standards for new light-duty vehicles around the world. In particular, it focused on recent developments in the European Union and the United States, including progress toward meeting the latest standards as stringency increases as well as any midstream revisions of targets. This work builds on past work in the Joint Program on the cost effectiveness of vehicle fuel economy standards.
Last spring Joint Program Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist C. Adam Schlosser and colleagues published a paper in the journal PLOS One that projected a “high risk of severe water stress” in much of Asia by midcentury.
“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.
