Roberto Schaeffer

TL;DR: The IAM landscape is summarized, six prominent critiques emerging from the recent literature are discussed, and ways forward are suggested to reflect and respond to them in the light of IAM diversity and ongoing work.

TL;DR: In most cases, climate mitigation is not the goal, but rather an outgrowth of efforts driven by economic, security, or local environmental concerns as discussed by the authors, highlighting the need for developing country efforts to reduce the risk of climate change while developing nations have been reluctant to accept binding emissions targets, asking that richer nations take action first.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential contribution of renewable energy to energy security in Latin America (LA) in the short and long terms was evaluated using two main approaches: seasonality and variability indices are calculated to assess patterns of wind and solar power resources and a statistical analysis evaluates complementarities between hotspots in the region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a new set of net-zero CO2 emissions scenarios with limited overshoot and show that upfront investments are needed in the near term for limiting temperature overshoot but that these would bring long-term economic gains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of E10 (gasohol blend) and E30 (gasoline-ethanol blend) on the oil industry and concluded that E10 does not pose any serious treat to the industry, nor do flexfuel vehicles using fairly typical gasoline engines and running on gasoline.