Democratizing Work: Redistributing power in organizations for a democratic and sustainable future
Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges.
Research
Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China
Climate change is a key problem of the 21st century.
Edward Cunningham on China’s Climate Face-offs and Trade-offs
The Chinese Communist Party is at a climate change crossroads, and how they choose to navigate it will shed light on their true priorities, says Director of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiati
Tipping point dynamics in global land use
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification.
Enabling a Significant Nuclear Role in China’s Decarbonization: Loosening Constraints, Mitigating Risks
While China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country in the world, major constraints may limit nuclear energy’s ability to grow to the scale of hundreds of gigawatts that would be re
Strengths and weaknesses of the PJM market model
The core of the iconic PJM market design is a bid-based-security-constrained-economic-dispatch-with-locational-marginal-prices (BBSCEDLMP) model that works in theory and in practice.
Social science research to inform solar geoengineering
As the prospect of average global warming exceeding 1.5°C becomes increasingly likely, interest in supplementing mitigation and adaptation with solar geoengineering (SG) responses will almost certainl
Toward constructive disagreement about geoengineering
The divergence of expert opinion about solar geoengineering (SG) may be sharper than in any other area of climate policy.
Social Science Research to Inform Solar Geoengineering
As the prospect of average global warming exceeding 1.5°C becomes increasingly likely, interest in supplementing mitigation and adaptation with solar geoengineering (SG) responses will almost certainl
Market expectations of a warming climate
We compare prices of financial derivatives whose payouts are based on future weather outcomes to CMIP5 climate model predictions as well as observed weather station data across eight cities in the US
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