July 8, 2024
Trade policy could help reduce global carbon emissions significantly. But simply adding carbon border taxes to the existing tariff system is not very effective.
November 30, 2023
Increasing the participation of private funds in climate finance is necessary to meet climate goals. But there are barriers that need to be overcome.
September 12, 2023
Emissions from agriculture have been heading in the wrong direction. Focussing on this sector has the potential of yielding high returns in the near future.
March 8, 2023
The increasing agglomeration of people and economic activity in high-risk areas of the U.S. plays a role in the rising cost of climate-related disasters.
July 22, 2022
While regulations can impose costs on companies and can be excessive, there are also circumstances under which regulations provide broader societal benefits.
June 29, 2022
Requiring climate risk disclosures would impose costs on companies but it could also benefit investors, the companies and the economy as a whole.
June 16, 2022
About a tenth of the world’s population is facing hunger. Hunger’s dramatic increase is the result of a perfect storm of conflict, COVID-19, climate, and cost.
November 10, 2021
Current U.S. prison infrastructure provides a rare picture of how the effects of heat can escalate in extreme situations with little option for avoidance.
July 13, 2021
There are risks in moving to artificially inflate demand for electric vehicles while uncertainties remain about the ultimate climate benefits.