Denise Mauzerall

About

Denise Mauzerall is the William S. Tod Professor of Public and International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Her research focuses on analyzing the impacts of energy technology choices on air quality, public health, food security, and greenhouse gas mitigation. She conducts policy-relevant scientific research utilizing regional and global atmospheric chemistry and climate models, as well as atmospheric, agricultural, and epidemiological data. Her work often examines international energy financing of coal and renewable energy, contributing to the understanding of environmental and climate issues through her publications in top journals such as Nature, Nature Sustainability, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Professor Mauzerall holds a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from Harvard University, along with a master's degree in Atmospheric Chemistry from Harvard, a master's in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Brown University. She is a core faculty member at the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment (C-PREE) and associated faculty at multiple institutes including the High Meadows Environmental Institute, the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Her academic interests include the analysis of energy technology impacts on air quality and climate, with recent research also exploring…

Research topics

• Business
• Economics
• Natural resource economics
• Environmental science
• Geography
• Political Science
• Engineering
• Ecology
• Economic growth
• Waste management

Selected publications

• Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

  Environmental Research Letters · 2021 · 372 citations

  Abstract Methane mitigation is essential for addressing climate change, but the value of rapidly implementing available mitigation measures is not well understood. In this paper, we analyze the climate benefits of fast action to reduce methane emissions as compared to slower and delayed mitigation timelines. We find that the scale up and deployment of greatly underutilized but available mitigation measures will have significant near-term temperature benefits beyond that from slow or delayed acti…

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• Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management

  Nature Food · 2020 · 279 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Global reduction of solar power generation efficiency due to aerosols and panel soiling

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · 164 citations

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• Financing carbon lock-in in developing countries: Bilateral financing for power generation technologies from China, Japan, and the United States

  Applied Energy · 2021 · 88 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Power sector decarbonization requires a fundamental redirection of global finance from fossil fuel infrastructure towards low carbon technologies. Bilateral finance plays an important role in the global energy transition to non-fossil energy, but an understanding of its impact is limited. Here, for the first time, we compare the influence of overseas finance from the three largest economies – United States, China, and Japan – on power generation development beyond their borders and evaluate the…

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• Deploying green hydrogen to decarbonize China’s coal chemical sector

  Nature Communications · 2023-12-07 · 68 citations

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  Abstract China’s coal chemical sector uses coal as both a fuel and feedstock and its increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are hard to abate by electrification alone. Here we explore the GHG mitigation potential and costs for onsite deployment of green H 2 and O 2 in China’s coal chemical sector, using a life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analyses. We estimate that China’s coal chemical production resulted in GHG emissions of 1.1 gigaton CO 2 equivalent (GtCO 2 eq) in 2020, equal to 9…

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Frequent coauthors

• Larry W. Horowitz

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  85 shared

• Wei Peng

  National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center

  47 shared

• Vaishali Naïk

  NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

  34 shared

• Mi Zhou

  Princeton Public Schools

  33 shared

• Fabian Wagner

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

  32 shared

• Junfeng Liu

  Lishui University

  30 shared

• Arlene M. Fiore

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  25 shared

• Junnan Yang

  Bengbu Medical College

  24 shared

Education

• PhD

  Harvard University

  1996

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