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Choosing Our Energy Future: Town Hall Discussion of Georgia’s Options for Implementing the Clean Power Plan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-09-28)
In August 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the Clean Power Plan, which aims to
reduce carbon pollution from the U.S. power sector to 32% below 2005 levels by 2030. Georgia must
submit its initial ...
Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Debate and Book Signing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-11-11)
Four faculty at Georgia Tech participated in a debate focusing on the theses of the newly published textbook (Climate Change and Global Energy Security) coauthored by Marilyn Brown (Georgia Tech) and Benjamin Sovacool ...
Mitigating Climate Change Through Green Buildings and Smart Growth
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-05)
Energy-efficient buildings are seen by climate change experts as one of the least-cost approaches to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper summarizes a study done for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change that ...
Governing Confusion: How Statutes, Fiscal Policy, and Regulations Impede Clean Energy Technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)
The United States shares with many other countries the goal of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change "to achieve … stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would ...
Energy Security Dimensions and Trends in Industrialized Countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-06)
This article represents one of the first scholarly efforts to correlate actual energy policy and practice with expert views of the multidimensional concept of energy security. Based on the energy security performance of ...
Making Buildings Part of the Climate Solution by Pricing Carbon Efficiently
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-07)
This report examines the impact of instituting an economy-wide tax on CO₂ emissions in the United States, focusing especially on the changes such a tax would have on the energy and carbon profile of the commercial buildings ...
The Forest Products Industry at an Energy/Climate Crossroads
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-06)
Transformational energy and climate policies are being debated worldwide that could have
significant impact upon the future of the forest products industry. Because woody biomass
can produce alternative transportation ...
The Residential Energy and Carbon Footprints of the 100 Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05)
The nation’s carbon footprint has a distinct geography that is not well understood or recognized in the national climate debate, partly because data on GHG emissions are so inadequate. Metros and the built environment are ...
Potential Impacts of Energy and Climate Policies on the U. S. Pulp and Paper Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-06-09)
Many energy and climate policies are being debated in the United States that could have significant impact upon the future of the pulp and paper industry. Five of these policies are examined here in terms of their possible ...
Smart-Grid Policies: An International Review
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-08)
The electric power systems of many industrialized nations are challenged by the need to accommodate distributed renewable generation, increasing demands of a digital society, growing threats to infrastructure security, and ...