Technological Change to Promote a Low Carbon Economy, ed. with Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Energy Economics, Special Issue (2011)
To address the issues involved in the dynamics of technological change to combat global warming, the editors of this special issue convened a pair of workshops on the subject. The workshops were co-hosted by the Energy Modeling Forum summer workshops in Snowmass, Colorado, in August 2008 and August 2009. The workshops addressed key issues from various perspectives: the underlying science and engineering, economic theory, modeling, entrepreneurship, policy instruments, and case studies. The purpose was to develop insights that will help policymakers, analysts, businesses, and governments as they consider various approaches to support technology and policy in this area. The papers in this volume were presented and discussed at both workshops; several of the discussants also prepared remarks, which we have included to provide perspective on the papers.