Event
The Role of Industrial Firms in China’s Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change
Valerie Karplus, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
China’s climate change pledge targets carbon neutrality by 2060. Policies and plans have begun to support decarbonization domestically while at the same time the country is becoming an increasingly important supplier of technology for the clean energy transition globally. This talk will cover a body of recent research that examines how industrial firms in China responded to clean energy and environmental policy signals and informational interventions. It will further consider how these responses could affect the success of efforts to remain on track to achieve its mid-century carbon neutrality goal.
Valerie J. Karplus is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and the Associate Director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Karplus studies resource and environmental management in organizations operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Areas of expertise include decarbonization of global corporate and industrial supply chains, regional approaches to low carbon transition, and the integrated design and evaluation of energy, air quality, and climate policies. At CMU, she directs the Laboratory for Energy and Organizations and serves as principal investigator for the NSF-funded Industrial Decarbonization Analysis, Benchmarking, and Action (INDABA) Partnership, involving five universities in four countries and multi-sector, multi-stakeholder partners. From 2011 to 2016, she co-founded and directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project, a five-year research effort focused on analyzing the design of energy and climate change policy in China, and its domestic and global impacts. Karplus holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT.
Open to all. This event is held onsite with a Zoom session. Please register below for Zoom access:
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