by Mason Inman | Mar 1, 2018 | Reports |
On February 21, the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) held its first auction of greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances featuring Ontario (ON), which formally linked with California (CA) and Québec (QC) in 2018. The auction resulted in carbon prices near the price floor, with...
by Mason Inman | Jan 11, 2018 | Reports |
Download full report (pdf) Removing excess cap-and-trade allowances will reduce greenhouse gas emissions Summary of responses to Severin Borenstein and Jim Bushnell Last month, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) identified the cap-and-trade program as the single...
by Mason Inman | Nov 10, 2017 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Download data (Excel file) New data show that California’s greenhouse gas emissions covered by the state’s cap-and-trade system declined sharply in 2016, falling 16.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMtCO2e) below...
by Mason Inman | Oct 27, 2017 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) We comment on the relationship between the 2030 Scoping Plan and the AB 398 implementation process. AB 398 requires a number of substantive changes to the post-2020 cap-and-trade market design the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted in...
by Mason Inman | Oct 2, 2017 | Reports |
On October 2, 2017, the Near Zero team—Michael Mastrandrea, Mason Inman, and Danny Cullenward—presented at Stanford’s Energy Seminar, showing results from a retrospective study in-progress. The full video of the talk is below. As California prepares its strategy...
by Mason Inman | May 11, 2017 | Blog |
Sen. Bob Wieckowski (left) in a hearing, with David Garcia (right), a consultant for the Senate Environmental Policy Committee Yesterday the California Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee, chaired by Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), heard testimony on...
by Mason Inman | Apr 10, 2017 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) California’s prospects for meeting mandated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as described in the Scoping Plan Update issued by the state’s Air Resources Board (ARB), face major sources of uncertainty and risk. This...
by Mason Inman | Jun 6, 2016 | archive |
Download report (pdf) In May 2016, ahead of the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial and the inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial, Near Zero gathered perspectives from experts in Mission Innovation countries to explore opportunities for further low-carbon energy R&D....
by Mason Inman | Apr 12, 2016 | archive |
Download report (pdf) In December 2015, world leaders from 20 countries announced Mission Innovation, an unprecedented increase in funds for accelerating affordable, zero-emission energy at global scale, doubling their respective clean energy research and development...
by Mason Inman | Sep 24, 2014 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Using expert assessments of U.S. natural gas supply, this paper examined the effect of different gas supplies on the future composition of the U.S. power sector and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Results suggest abundant supplies of natural gas...
