As the prospect of average global warming exceeding 1.5°C becomes increasingly likely, interest in supplementing mitigation and adaptation…
Sheila Olmstead, professor of public affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, shared her thoughts on…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move…
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The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for…
In “The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing,” Ahmad Faruqui lays out a case for
improved efficiency in using dynamic prices for retail electricity…