Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act

2023/06/29 by John Bistline, Geoffrey J. Blanford, Geoffrey Blanford +32 · 3 voices · 265 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Energy · Engineering · #Climate Change Policy and Economics #Economics #Energy (signal processing) #Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies #Engineering #Environmental science #Inflation (cosmology) #Natural resource economics #Physics #Reduction (mathematics) #Software deployment #demographic modeling and climate adaptation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1126/science.adg3781

published in Science 380(6652), 1324-1327 (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

openalex publication_date 2023/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Economy-wide emissions drop 43 to 48% below 2005 levels by 2035 with accelerated clean energy deployment.

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• This new paper follows our earlier collaboration published in Science in June on the economy-wide emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... You can r [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]
• i believe it's this one arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01443 [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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