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Milestones for Building International Climate Change Ambition
On May 5th the Abu Dhabi Ascent, a meeting of government ministers and leaders from business, finance and civil society, kicked off an international effort to build ambition around a new...
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Welcoming Indian Prime Minister Modi to the Global Stage: Brookings Experts...
The results are in: After six weeks of voting, the largest election in world history positioned Narendra Modi—the polarizing leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—as the new Indian prime minister,...
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Why the Best Path to a Low-Carbon Future is Not Wind or Solar Power
Editor's Note: In this blog, Charles Frank answers five questions on low and no-carbon electricity technologies. For a more detailed look at alternative technologies for reducing emissions, read...
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The Net Benefits of Low and No-Carbon Electricity Technologies
This paper examines five different low and no-carbon electricity technologies and presents the net benefits of each under a range of assumptions. It estimates the costs per megawatt per year for wind,...
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Climate Change is Displacing People Now: Alarmists vs. Skeptics
Since the very first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there has been a recognition that one of the principal effects of climate change will be on the movement of people. But...
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Three Options for Better Climate Policy
Thanks to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has to do something to control them. But the act is...
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The New Era of Climate Federalism
The new era of American climate federalism is, in many respects, a regulatory blast-from-the-past. And that may actually be a promising development, particularly for its placement of states at center...
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The Economic Consequences of Delays in US Climate Policy
Event InformationJune 3, 20141:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDTSaul/Zilkha RoomsBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036Register for the EventA delay in the implementation of U.S....
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The Economic Consequences of Delay in U.S. Climate Policy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun regulating existing stationary sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) using its authority under the Clean Air Act (the...
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The Political and Legal Future of Obama’s Proposed Clean Power Plan
Yesterday saw the release of the most important element of the Obama administration’s climate agenda, dubbed the Clean Power Plan. In it, the EPA proposes a state-centric framework for regulating...
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Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Benefits
Although benefit assessment principles are well established for defined populations, there has been very little attention to how one defines the scope of the pertinent population for the assessment....
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What Brookings Scholars Are Saying about the EPA Emissions Regulation Proposal
On June 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired powerplants by 30 percent by the year 2030. The EPA has proposed giving...
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Three Options for Better Climate Policy
Thanks to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has to do something to control them. But the act is...
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Disasters and Displacement: What We Know, What We Don’t Know
Climate change is expected to increase the number of sudden-onset disasters caused by natural hazards and as a consequence we can expect more disaster-induced displacement around the world. As experts...
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We Need a New Compromise to Break the Climate Negotiations Impasse
As one who brings students to observe and report on the United Nations negotiations on climate change and who would like to see those negotiations succeed, it is easy to be discouraged at the snail’s...
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Be Not Afraid of Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
Ross Douthat, Andrew Sullivan, and others point to a recent article in which Ezra Klein describes a global nightmare that is being created as the irresistible force of climate change meets the...
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Winter’s Freeze Erodes American Acceptance of Global Warming
The recent release of the EPA’s proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants represents a cornerstone of the Obama Administration’s efforts to combat climate change. As might be expected with...
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Winter’s Freeze Erodes American Acceptance of Global Warming
The recent release of the EPA’s proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants represents a cornerstone of the Obama Administration’s efforts to combat climate change. As might be expected with...
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3 Questions for Obama's Fight Against Climate Change
The Obama administration recently announced a proposed rule for reducing emissions from existing power plants. The goal is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 30% compared to 2005 levels. If we...
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Challenges to the European Union’s Post-2020 Climate and Energy Framework
The European Union is in the process of developing its climate change targets for the post-2020 period. The EU is the third largest greenhouse gas emitter and has been a leading advocate of ambitious...
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