by Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | 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 Michael Mastrandrea | Mar 24, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Danny Cullenward and Michael Mastrandrea of Near Zero, together with Stanford University PhD candidates Emily Grubert and Aaron Strong, sent a comment to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) on ARB’s Draft Mitigation Program for the...
