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Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act.

Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture

We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in diffe

Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition, San Servolo Island, Venice – June 6-9, 2010.

The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food / climate issue, and to discuss the hard challenges of moving forw

Scarcity Pricing and Locational Operating Demand Curves

Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Strategy, and the Environment

We examine the concept of firms sacrificing profits in the social interest within the environmental realm, with particular focus on the case of the United States by addressing four key questions.

The Natural Resources Trap: Private Investment Without Public Commitment

Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and ener

Meaningful and Cost Effective Climate Policy: The Case for Cap and Trade

Addresses the questions of whether creating a market for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions is a "cure worse than the disease itself" and offers a better understanding of the issues, the rhetoric, and th

Toward a Combined Merchant-Regulatory Mechanism for Electricity Transmission Expansion

Electricity transmission pricing and transmission grid expansion have received increasing regulatory and analytical attention in recent years.

Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste

Interim management: Today’s U.S. commercial nuclear reactors will generate on the order of 100,000 metric tons of spent fuel containing about 1,000 metric tons of plutonium.

Demand Response Pricing in Organized Wholesale Markets