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First Take: Waste -- Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons

Waste—its generation, collection and disposal—is a major global challenge in the 21st century. Cities are responsible for managing municipal waste.

China’s Energy Hedging Strategy: Less Than Meets the Eye for Russian Gas Pipelines

Comparing Countries' Climate Mitigation Efforts in a Post-Kyoto World

Although the future extent and effects of global climate change remain uncertain, the expected damages are not zero, and risks of serious environmental and macroeconomic consequences rise with increas

Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience

The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world's cap-and-trade systems for GHGs, both directly between systems, and indirectly via connections to credit systems such as

What's the Right Temperature for the Earth?

Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies through a Future International Agreement

Negotiations pursuant to the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action appear likely to lead to a 2015 Paris agreement that embodies a hybrid climate policy architecture, combining top-down elements, such a

An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy

Improving end-use energy efficiency—that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy—is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-g

Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty: When is Good News Bad?

Climate change is real and dangerous. Exactly how bad it will get, however, is uncertain.

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consu

International Cooperation: Agreements and Instruments

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, inc