Maruf Morshet, assistant teaching professor in energy business and finance at Penn State, will give the talk, "Are Biofuels More Environmentally Friendly? The GHG Emissions Impacts of Increased Biofuel Production," at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 29, in 157 Hosler Building on the University Park campus. His talk is part of the spring Initiative for Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEPI) seminar series.
"During the last decade, the negative consequences of climate change have become more intense and severe," Morshet said. "The substitution of biofuels for gasoline can potentially reduce global emissions and help mitigate these negative impacts."
In his talk, Morshet will link the Global Trade Analysis Project Biofuels model and the Global Trade Analysis Project model with Agro-Ecological Zones and greenhouse gas emissions model with the updated database incorporating non-CO2 emissions to analyze the impact of increased biofuel production on the global economy and emissions.
Morshed specializes in energy and environmental economics. His research includes renewable energy like biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions analysis, drought and climate policy from both micro and macro perspectives by employing computable general equilibrium and machine-learning models.
Morshed earned his doctorate in economics from Texas Tech University in 2023, his master's degree in economics from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh in 2017 and his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2012.
The Initiative for Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy was established in 2011 with the goal of promoting policy-relevant economics research that lies at the boundary between economic sciences and the study of natural or engineered systems. The EEEPI initiative is focused primarily on the union between energy systems and environmental management and the development of quantitative tools to address decision challenges in these areas. View more information on EEEPI.
