This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists…
The emerging pledge and review approach to international climate policy provides countries with substantial discretion in how they craft…
Linkage of Regional, National, and Sub-National Policies in a Future International Climate Agreement
As international negotiations proceed towards COP21 in Paris in December 2015, a
hybrid policy architecture is emerging under the 2011…
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic climate change mitigation policy
would impose significant economic costs…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has alleged that Volkswagen Group of America (VW) violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by…
Solid aerosol particles have long been proposed as an alternative to sulfate aerosols for solar geoengineering. Any solid aerosol…
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule that defines a broad and complicated
set of standards for controlling carbon…
Climate change is real and dangerous. Exactly how bad it will get, however, is uncertain. Uncertainty is particularly relevant for…
Climate science initially aspired to improve understanding of what the future would bring, and thereby produce appropriate public policies…
High cost and technical immaturity of bulk (multi-hour) electricity storage (BES) systems are often cited as major hurdles to increasing…