Not exact matches
reported in the
journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator
Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the
transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.
The paper, published in the
journal Transportation Science, is co-authored by Bertsimas and Shubhum Gupta of MIT's Operations
Research Center.
A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the
transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to
research published in the October issue of the
journal Nature Climate Change.