Richard J Plevin

Biographic Data

ID6821545
NAMERichard J Plevin
GIVEN NAMESRichard J
FAMILY NAMEPlevin
SIGNATUREPLEVIN R J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0003-3919-0836
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

    Open AccessKevin Rennert, Frank Errickson et al.ARTICLENature2022

    The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO 2 ) measures the monetized value of the damages to society caused by an incremental metric tonne of CO 2 emissions and is a key metric informing climate policy. Used by governments and other decision-makers in benefit–cost analysis for over a decade, SC-CO 2 estimates draw on climate science, economics, demography and other disciplines. However, a 2017 report by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engin…

  • Assessing the Climate Effects of Biofuels Using Integrated Assessment Models, Part I

    Open AccessRichard J PlevinARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    Estimates of the climate‐change mitigation benefits of biofuels are varied and controversial. Some analysts rely on attributional life cycle assessment (ALCA), limiting the analytic scope to the direct supply chain, whereas others supplement an ALCA result with an estimate of land‐use change (LUC) emissions intensity. Other analysts have used consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA), with methods ranging from static market assessments to identi…

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation

    Open AccessFelix Creutzig, N H Ravindranath et al.ARTICLEGCB Bioenergy2015

    Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various communities involved in the research and regulation of bioenergy deployment in the context of climate change mitigation: Land‐use and energy experts, land‐use and integrated assessment modelers, human geographers, ecosystem researchers, climate scientists and two different …

  • Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate‐Change Mitigation Benefits Misleads Policy Makers

    Open AccessRichard J Plevin, Mark A Delucchi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    Life cycle assessment (LCA) is generally described as a tool for environmental decision making. Results from attributional LCA (ALCA), the most commonly used LCA method, often are presented in a way that suggests that policy decisions based on these results will yield the quantitative benefits estimated by ALCA. For example, ALCAs of biofuels are routinely used to suggest that the implementation of one alternative (say, a biofuel) will cause an X…

  • Response to Comments on “Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate‐Change Mitigation …”

    Open AccessRichard J Plevin, Richard Plevin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

  • Modeling Corn Ethanol and Climate

    Open AccessRichard J PlevinARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2009

    New fuel regulations based on life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have focused renewed attention on life cycle models of biofuels. The BESS model estimates 25% lower life cycle GHG emissions for corn ethanol than does the well‐known GREET model, which raises questions about which model is more accurate. I develop a life cycle metamodel to compare the GREET and BESS models in detail and to explain why the results from these models diverge. I…

  • Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum

    Open AccessMichael O’hare, Richard J Plevin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2009

    The global warming intensities of crop-based biofuels and fossil fuels differ not only in amount but also in their discharge patterns over time. Early discharges, for example, from market-mediated land use change, will have created more global warming by any time in the future than later discharges, owing to the slow decay of atmospheric CO2. A spreadsheet model of this process, BTIME, captures this important time pattern effect using the Bern CO…

  • The effect of CO 2 regulations on the cost of corn ethanol production

    Open AccessRichard J Plevin, S MuellerARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2008

    The effect of CO2 regulations on the cost of corn ethanol production This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article

  • Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals

    Open AccessAlexander E Farrell, Richard J Plevin et al.ARTICLEScience2006

    To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored coproducts and used some obsolete data. All studies indicated that current corn ethanol technologies are much less petroleum-intensive than gasoline but have greenhouse gas emissions similar to those of gasoline. However, many important environmental effects of biofuel pro…