Wildfire and the Federal Budget
Under enormous pressure from a fire season that has already seen 31,900 fires burn nearly 3 million acres, the US Forest Service (USFS) recently announced that, for the second year in a row, it has...
View ArticleA Question of Climate Equality
Should developed countries compensate developing countries for loss and damages from climate change? How should we regulate sustainable technology sharing among countries? Will nations ever be able to...
View ArticleThe Climate Changes, But Will Our Minds?
Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that warming trends throughout the past century are very likely of an anthropogenic nature. Sea acidification levels, caused by the saturation of carbon...
View ArticleCoordinating Climate Change Action
As negotiations to develop a strategy for addressing climate change continue in Warsaw this week it is worth considering some recent economic work about the usefulness of international climate change...
View ArticleWarsaw COP19
In the early hours of Saturday morning in the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, climate negotiators and ministers from all over the world wrapped up the 19th Conference of the Parties to the UN...
View ArticleReversing Course
By now anyone with an interest in climate change or global climate policy should have heard about the shocking climate agreement between the U.S. and China announced on Tuesday. There has already been...
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Let There Be Light!
Part one of a series summarizing the African Progress Report 2015, produced by the Africa Progress Panel (APP). Led by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, the APP advocates for...
View ArticleUnderstanding Climate-Induced Migration
Migration has been long discussed as an implication of climate change. Climate-induced migration has the potential to affect (as well as be affected by) livelihoods, security, and development....
View ArticleRelevant Research
A growing number of young researchers in various fields are realizing that responding to global challenges creates a need for a rethinking of some of the basic underlying assumptions of applied...
View ArticleFavored Finance
Editor’s Note: S&S is collaborating with the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) to bring academic research findings to a broader audience. Writers at S&S are producing short...
View ArticleEnergy Imbalance
I recently received a phone call from a colleague upon return from her first major conference on clean energy. Before I could welcome her back from her trip, she blurted out that the conference went...
View ArticleGreen Army
Hurricane Katrina revealed the power of nature and the inadequate response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Michael Brown. The storm shredded the Gulf coast and breached the levees...
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Cooking up a storm
Most Americans only cook over a fire on camping trips. For the less adventurous American, there are roasted marshmallows over backyard bonfires. And as for charcoal, that’s reserved for July 4th, when...
View ArticleNo More Zero Carbon
The UK, with the Climate Change Act 2008, set the legally binding target to reduce its carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 compared to the 1990 levels. The building sector is viewed internationally as the...
View ArticleCarbon Pledges
If Coca-Cola, Apple, and Facebook promised to take a stand on climate change, would you believe them? Would their commitments matter? President Obama thinks so. On October 19, 81 major U.S. companies,...
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Green Leviathan and Income Inequality in the 21st century
Environmental policy is an unusual beast. In an age when austerity and privatization target almost every sector of the state, environmental protection remains Leviathan’s acknowledged ward. Charter...
View ArticleDon’t Siesta on Sustainability: How Renewables Can Reinvigorate the Dominican...
Never before has the opportunity to go green in the energy sector been as appealing and accessible as in the Caribbean. This four-part blog series documents the paradigm shift currently under way in...
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