Search results for: Rose Murphy
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Energy Policy > 2011 > 39 > 11 > 7146-7155
A highly influential report by the McKinsey consulting firm suggests that a large potential for profitable energy efficiency exists in the US, and that substantial greenhouse gas emissions reductions can therefore be achieved at a low cost. This result is consistent with other studies conducted using a bottom-up methodology that dates back to the work of Lovins beginning in the 1970s. Research over...
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Energy Economics > 2007 > 29 > 4 > 826-846
In this paper, we explore the implications for Canada's industrial sector of an economy-wide, compulsory greenhouse gas reduction policy, such as a tax or emissions cap and tradable permits system. The model used in the analysis is CIMS, a hybrid energy-economy model that combines characteristics of the contrasting top-down and bottom-up approaches in order to generate useful information for policy...
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Ecological Economics > 2004 > 51 > 1-2 > 31-46
The transportation sector offers substantial potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission abatement, but widely divergent cost estimates complicate policy making; energy–economy policy modelers apply top-down and bottom-up cost definitions and different assumptions about future technologies and the preferences of firms and households. Our hybrid energy–economy policy model is technology-rich, like...
