Nathan S. Balke

Jun 20, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | Nathan S. Balke |David Coyle |Carol Dahl |C.-Y. Cynthia Lin

With numerous governments and corporations making increasingly ambitious carbon and methane emissions pledges, meeting now-ubiquitous “net zero” goals will require reducing not only the consumption of fossil fuels, but also their production and their emissions intensities. Winding down fossil fuel production has long been a policy lever considered in the academic literature (Harstad, 2012; Erickson et al., 2018; Lazarus and van Asselt, 2018; Asheim et al., 2019; van der Ploeg and Rezai, 2020; P.