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Countries are invited to formulate longterm<br>low greenhouse gas emission development strategies that should be designed within the context of other<br>development goals and co-benefits. This article addresses the issues related to the evaluation of national trajectories<br>developed in a cooperative framework aiming at collectively reaching 2°C and based on the integration of development<br>priorities and co-benefits into national trajectories. The national decarbonization trajectories discussed in this article<br>were developed as part of the Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project (DDPP) by the 16 major GHG emitting countries.<br>These 16 bottom-up decarbonization strategies are implemented in the POLES model, a partial equilibrium model of the<br>global energy sector, which is an appropriate tool to provide a harmonized contextual framework for assessing these<br>trajectories. The results make it possible to evaluate the gap between, on the one hand, national DDPP trajectories and<br>NDCs and, on the other hand, national DDPP trajectories and a scenario resulting from a minimization of abatement costs.<br>They allow to feed a discussion on the development of NDCs and the move away from national trajectories of trajectories<br>minimizing the overall reduction cost and produced with integrated assessment models.</p> Sandrine Mathy Copyright (c) 2024 Energy Studies Review 2023-08-15 2023-08-15 26 1 10.15173/esr.v26i1.4591 https://energystudiesreview.ca/esr/article/view/5599 <p>Increased demand for corn-based ethanol puts upward pressure on prices of corn and other commodities, such as soybeans, and possibly worsens their price volatility. The paper investigates the changes in agricultural commodities' standard deviation and beta sizes due to ethanol production in the US. Standard deviations and beta estimations are compared for the ethanol pre-expansion and expansion periods. The results indicate a high level of price volatility in the second period, which could be attributed to ethanol expansion.</p> Frank Tenkorang Deborah Bridges Copyright (c) 2024 Energy Studies Review 2024-08-12 2024-08-12 26 1 10.15173/esr.v26i1.5599