Valerie Karplus just published a new discussion paper entitled Sustaining the Global Energy Transition with the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. The paper considers the implications of high interest rates, trade tensions, and energy geopolitics for the deployment of technologies to decarbonize industries worldwide and argues for strategies that maintain momentum that are connected with objectives beyond climate alone.  View the paper here . A related LinkedIn post about

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Miles, Jillian; Combemale, Christophe; Karplus, Valerie J.; Pistorius, P. Chris (2025). Simulating regional workforce impacts of...

Zhang, Da; Karplus, Valerie J. (2025). Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit. Nature Energy....

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Zhuo, Q.; Al-Harbi, M.N.; Pistorius, P.C. (2025). Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of...

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Sievert, K., Song, Y., Chen, Y., and Karplus, V.J. (2024), Environmental Research: Energy , Vol. 1, No. 3, July 2024. View the paper here

Hantan Peng, Chenfei Qu, Valerie J. Karplus, Da Zhang (2025), Energy and Climate Management , Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2025. View the paper...

Valerie J. Karplus, Lan Xue, M. Granger Morgan, Kebin He, David G. Victor, Shuang-Nan Zhang (2024), Nature , 14 January 2025. View the...

Developed by LEO member Elina Hoffmann, LEO alumna Katie Jordan, and Valerie Karplus and P. Chris Pistorius, this model supports...

Karplus, V., Iacob, I., Moore, E., Morgan, G. (2024), Risk Analysis , 1-19. View the paper here

Karplus, V. and Granger, M. (2024), Issues in Science and Technology , Vol. XL, No. 4, Summer 2024. View the paper here

Miles, J.E., Combemale, C., Karplus, V. (2023), Issues in Science and Technology , Vol. XL, No. 1, Fall 2023. View the paper here

Karplus, V. and Wu, M. (2023), PNAS , 120(17), e2214262120. View the paper here

Reolfi, R., Fuchs, E., and Karplus, V. (2023), Environmental Research Letters , 18(3), 1002. View the paper here

Steffen, B., Karplus, V., Schmidt, T. (2022) - Research Policy, 51(6), 104534.

Karplus, V.J., Geissmann, T., and Zhang, D. (2021). - World Development, 142(C).

Karplus, V.J., Zhang, J., and Zhao, J. (2021). - Review of Economics and Environmental Policy, 15(2), 300-322.