Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars
The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) launched a process to confront risks posed by global climate change.
Research
Innovation Key to Unlocking Africa’s Horticultural Potential
African agriculture is at the crossroads. Persistent food shortages are now being compounded by new threats arising from climate change.
Africa Must Wake Up to The Reality That Hunger is Now a National Security Issue
The world food outlook for 2013 looks grim as a result of the worst drought in the United States in 50 years.
The U.S. Sulphur Dioxide Cap and Trade Programme and Lessons for Climate Policy
The sulphur dioxide (SO2) allowance-trading programme established under Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) was the world’s first large-scale pollutant cap-and-trade system.
North American Oil and Gas Reserves: Prospects and Policy
Expanding estimates of North America’s supply of accessible shale gas, and more recently, shale oil, have been trumpeted in many circles as the most significant energy resource development since the o
The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment
Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system.
Policies for the Energy Technology Innovation System (ETIS)
The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance
An implication of the Coase theorem is that under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-effective and independent of the initial allocation of tradable righ
Mexican Oil Reforms Are Vital on Both Sides of the Border
In recent days a coalition of Mexican advocacy groups has been protesting in front of Televisa, the country’s largest TV network, to contest the legitimacy of President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto’s July
Pulling the Plug on Nation’s Security
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