Carbon Emission Reduction Opportunities in California Transportation
This page finalized February 1, 2008
Chair’s Air Pollution Seminar
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Sierra Hearing Room, Second Floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento
This
event is being Webcast, click here to view
Webcast viewers: Please send your
questions during broadcast to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov
Presentation is available at this link
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Carbon Emission
Reduction Opportunities
in California Transportation
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Zack Subin, Ph.D., Candidate
Energy and Resources Group
University of California, Berkeley
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AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) requires California to make large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
in the near future. As such, policymakers are faced with important questions about how best to make these reductions.
Stationary sources have traditionally been easiest to regulate, but that does not mean that they necessarily provide
the greatest potential for reductions at the lowest economic cost. Our research suggests that there are a number
of relatively low cost ways to reduce carbon in the transportation sector that could be used to supplement both
the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and AB 1493 (the Pavely standards), amounting to an additional 60-100 MMT of CO2 annually.
Over the last several years, increasing gasoline prices and promising technological developments have improved
the economics of options to reduce emissions in transportation. Among the technologies that could play a key role
are hybrid and plug-in hybrid light-duty vehicles, heavy truck fuel efficiency technologies, and alternative hydrocarbon
fuels. Based on analysis done at Energy & Environmental Economics, a series of supply curves will be presented
that suggest a large potential for emissions reductions in California transportation, even after accounting for
existing policies. Although predicting the future economics of transportation technologies always requires recognizing
significant uncertainty, our analysis suggests that additional transportation sector policies could be very beneficial
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Zack Subin, Ph.D., Candidate, is studing with the Energy & Resources Group, University
of California, Berkeley. Mr. Subin's studies at Berkeley have focused on energy and climate change. Besides working
on the economics of California climate policies, Mr. Subin has also researched the economics of wind energy and
the comparative greenhouse gas emissions associated with alternative options for dealing with the organic fraction
of municipal solid waste. Dr. Robert F. Sawyer, former Air Resources Board Chairman, is working with him on his
transportation research.
Mr. Subin currently holds an MPP from Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a BA in physics from Harvard.
Mr. Subin has worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Redefining
Progress in Oakland, and Energy and Environmental Economics in San Francisco. |
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For more information on this
Seminar please contact:
Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or send email to: pmathews@arb.ca.gov
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