Research Spotlight: The Impact of Carbon Pricing Policies in Reducing CO2 Emissions from Road Transportation

Research Spotlight’s eighth installment features a paper authored by Wharton sophomore Didrik Wiig-Andersen, a winner of one of Wharton’s 2023 Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) awards. Published in ScholarlyCommons, Penn’s institutional repository, “The impact of carbon pricing policies in reducing CO2 emissions from road transportation: a meta-analysis of empirical studies,” conducts an exhaustive literature review to identify eighteen papers that are used to analyze a variety of pricing policies in a wide range of geographies and help draw conclusions about the combined effect of their implementation in reducing CO2 emissions in road transportation.

Wiig-Andersen used a combination of subject-specific literature databases available through the library in the process of gathering relevant papers, including ABI/Inform, EconLit, PAIS Index, and more. These resources provide access to scholarly works in the disciplines of business, economics, and social policy, connecting researchers with materials from a wealth of reputable sources.

For more information on subject databases, contact a Lippincott Librarian.

Clean Energy by the Numbers: Data Sources

According to Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Convention, “Never before have the risks of climate change been so obvious and the impacts so visible.” We could add that never before has there been such an interest in sources of information for climate change, energy use and “clean” (non-polluting)  technology.

 

 

In a previous blog post, Clean, Green, and Renewable Energy.  Are there any Alternatives? we described several  resources for  Penn students that cover clean technology. Here are some additional data sources on clean technology that may prove useful.