Working Papers, Preprints, Media Articles, and Policy Briefs
The Harvard-China Project is a research program stressing peer-reviewed publication, especially articles in scholarly journals and books from academic presses. Click here for the full list of these primary research outputs of the Project.
The Project also interacts with policy and industry actors, and we produce occasional Research or Policy Briefs, and other public commentaries (op-eds) for these audiences based on our research that are not peer-reviewed. We also have working papers to share results and invite discussion. This page provides links to such non-peer-reviewed articles.
Policy Options to Achieve US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Targets
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...
Logistics for a Low-Carbon Economy: Hydrogen and Ammonia Distribution. Opportunities and Challenges
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...
Harnessing Clean Hydrogen Mobility: Opportunities and Challenges
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...
Carbon Markets and Carbon Tariffs: Effect on World Trade and Emissions
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...
Economic-Environmental Model of China, Disaggregated Electricity
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...
Op-Ed in Fortune by Ho and Nielsen on China's Red Alert Pollution Struggles
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...
Impacts of Carbon Pricing in Reducing
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...
New York Times Sunday Op-Ed: Clearing the Air In China
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...
