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LEDs, Energy Efficiency and Consumption

Wagner, Gernot; Gillingham, Kenneth

LEDs alone won’t solve global warming or global poverty, but they are a step in the right direction for both.

Published as Letter to the Editor in the New York Times on October 17th, 2014. For a more comprehensive response, see “Is energy efficiency a good thing even with rebound?” For a review paper, see “The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy.”

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School of International and Public Affairs
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October 30, 2015