Environment & climate
It is extremely important for us to understand our environment, how human activities may affect it, and how we can reduce the damage. Environmental problems are often complex, having many interacting parts and stakeholders. Below are a few of the interesting and important models created to help illuminate issues around climate change.
Social influences in modeling energy decarbonization
Discover how blending social dynamics with energy models revolutionizes climate policy, offering sustainable, culturally-informed solutions.
Are cows worse than cars for greenhouse gas?
Turns out that methane from farm animals generates more greenhouse gas emissions than cars, trucks, trains, and planes combined.
Building electrification: heat pump technology
Lumina set out to build a useful tool to assess the benefits of heat pumps. Learn more about heat pumps and their impact.
US gas leaks much larger than previously estimated
A new Stanford-led study on natural gas leak rates from oil and gas activity across a large fraction of the US are about 3x more than previous government estimates. The…
Can California afford its ambitious climate policies?
The State of California uses the PATHWAYS Analytica model to show that it can reach its ambitious target of 50% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030 at reasonable cost.
Helping DOE decide which R&D projects to fund
See how the prioritization of technologies and projects are managed based on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the US.
Some Analytica customers
