Is Climate Change the Path to Greater US-China Cooperation?
Edward Cunningham discusses how decarbonization can serve as an opportunity for both countries to set aside their political tensions and work towards a common policy objective.
Research
Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals
Rapid Arctic warming has intensified northern wildfires and is thawing carbon-rich permafrost.
Environmental Protection or Environmental Protectionism? Evidence from Tail Pipe Emission Standards in China
Under the stated goal of improving air quality, many cities in China restricted the import of used vehicles from other cities based on tail pipe emission standards.
Property Rights and Urban Form
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities?
Expert judgements on solar geoengineering research priorities and challenges
Solar geoengineering describes a set of proposals to deliberately alter the earth’s radiative balance to reduce climate risks.
Testimony on the Elimination of Fossil Fuel Subsidies to the US Subcommittee on the Environment
Fossil fuel subsidies represent a government failure.
Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative
Solar geoengineering (SG) entails using technology to modify the Earth's radiative balance to offset some of the climate changes caused by long-lived greenhouse gases.
Securing Property Rights
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice.
Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility:Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections
Donald Trump's 2016 election and his nomination of climate skeptic Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency drastically downshifted expectations on U.S. policy toward climate change.
The Role of Retrospective Analysis in an Era of Deregulation: Lessons from the U.S. Mercury Air Toxic Standards
As of late 2020, the Trump administration had initiated almost one hundred rollbacks of U.S. environmental regulations.
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