Policy Briefs and Economics Working Papers

By Zhao Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming an important link between transportation and power systems. As EV adoption accelerates, charging demand will grow from a...

In contributing to global climate change mitigation efforts as agreed in Paris in 2015, China has set a target of reducing the carbon dioxide intensity of gross domestic product by 60-65 percent in 2030 compared with 2005 levels. Using a dynamic...

An appendix of the paper Cao, Ho and Liu (2023). “ Analyzing multi-greenhouse gas mitigation of China using a general equilibrium model ,” Environmental Research Letters , 18, 025001. In this appendix we describe the economic-environment model for China...

This appendix describes the global economic growth model used in Hu, Cao and Ho (2022) to simulate the impact of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions control policies and the parallel border carbon adjustment policies. Section 3 of the main text summarizes the...

Decarbonizing aviation in the short term will likely entail replacing large quantities of petroleum jet fuel with sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), which are predominantly biofuels. In the United States, biofuels are currently used as substitutes for...

Clean hydrogen is emerging as a key energy carrier in the transition to a low-carbon economy. However, its large-scale distribution presents significant logistical challenges. Multiple transportation methods are available, ranging from pipelines and...

The global transition to a low-carbon economy and adopting the needed clean energy technologies at scale will significantly impact existing value chains 1 and transform production-to-consumption lifecycles. Regulatory and business models must rapidly...

Project Economist Mun HO and Executive Director Chris NIELSEN have an op-ed in Fortune (and in Chinese at Fortune China) on the underappreciated reasons China's red alert air pollution episodes are proving so difficult to control. Factors range from...

Chris Nielsen, China Project Executive Director, and Mun Ho, Visiting Scholar in Economics, had an op-ed in the Sunday Review of the New York Times on October 27, 2013. Click here to see the article. The op-ed describes the challenges to China of...