Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty: When is Good News Bad?
Climate change is real and dangerous. Exactly how bad it will get, however, is uncertain.
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Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate science initially aspired to improve understanding of what the future would bring, and thereby produce appropriate public policies and effective international climate agreements.
How Much Bulk Energy Storage is Needed to Decarbonize Electricity?
High cost and technical immaturity of bulk (multi-hour) electricity storage (BES) systems are often cited as major hurdles to increasing the penetration of intermittent renewables.
Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change
The initial hope for climate science was that an improved understanding of what the future might bring would lead to appropriate public policies and effective international climate agreements.
London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the City of London and its hinterlands.
Now is the Right Time to Reform Oil Pricing
World oil prices, which have been highly volatile during the last decade, have fallen more than 50% over the past year.
The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic climate change mitigation policy would impose significant economic costs on carbon-intensive industries, resulting in declining output
Facilitating Linkage of Climate Policies Through the Paris Outcome
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action negotiations are likely to lead to a Paris outcome that embodies a hybrid climate policy architecture, combining top-down elements, such as for monitoring, repo
Market Forces Can't Fix Methane-Gas Emissions
The future of renewables is clearly linked to the future of natural gas, which in turn is linked to the ability of all stakeholders to reduce its environmental footprint—especially fugitive methane em
The Energy Implications of a Nuclear Deal between the P5+1 and Iran
On June 23 and 24, twenty five experts met at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government under the auspices of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and Internation
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