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    Lessons from the world’s largest market-based approach to lowering CO2 emissions

Lessons from the world’s largest market-based approach to lowering CO2 emissions

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The Paris agreement can learn from the political idiosyncrasies of the Kyoto protocol’s ‘Clean Development Mechanism’, write Hans Rawhouser, Shon Hiatt and Michael Cummings.

 

As part of the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as foment sustainable development in developing economies. Carbon offsets are created when private project developers undertake […]

September 26th, 2020|Environment, Hans Rawhouser, Michael Cummings, Shon Hiatt|0 Comments|
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    There is more pollution when Congress and state Governorships are under Republican control

There is more pollution when Congress and state Governorships are under Republican control

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Republican politicians have been portrayed traditionally as having less concern for the environment, but what does the evidence say about the GOP and pollution? In new research, Luke Fowler and Jaclyn Kettler examined 20 years’ of data on state-level toxic waste releases. They found that there was likely to be more pollution when the US Congress and state Governorships […]

August 27th, 2020|Environment, Jaclyn J. Kettler, Luke Fowler|0 Comments|
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How to address sustainability risk in a dangerous universe

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Cost-benefit analysis using discount rates may not be our best option for a sensible intergenerational outcome, writes Kevin R. James.

While our galaxy is full of planets that could harbour life, there is no evidence that any of them besides our own actually do. This observation suggests that the universe is a dangerous place and that we may be facing […]

July 18th, 2020|Environment|0 Comments|
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    How the federal government can learn from green bank innovation in the states

How the federal government can learn from green bank innovation in the states

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As concern about climate change continues to grow, so does interest in developing cleaner energy sources. Matthew J. Razzano looks at how some US states have created green banks, which aim to finance green projects by promoting private investment. Green banks in states like New York and Connecticut, he writes, could provide a road map for the federal government […]

April 20th, 2020|Environment, Matthew J. Razzano|1 Comment|
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Book Review: After Extinction edited by Richard Grusin

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What comes after extinction? In After Extinction, editor Richard Grusin brings together contributors to address this question by considering extinction within cultural, artistic, media and biological debates. This is a timely contribution to contemporary discussions regarding the future of our planet, writes Anda Pleniceanu, that will leave readers with a renewed perspective on the relevance of the humanities to understanding our […]

December 22nd, 2019|Anda Pleniceanu, Book Reviews, Environment|1 Comment|
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    Environmental direct action may be forgiven by voters if they can see that conventional politics are not working.

Environmental direct action may be forgiven by voters if they can see that conventional politics are not working.

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Recent environmental activist protests like Extinction Rebellion are not new: groups including Earth Liberation Front and Earth First! have been using direct action tactics for decades. But with political polarization and political violence seemingly on the rise, are we likely to see more forceful or violent environmental protests? In new research, Ben Farrer and Graig Klein look at the […]

December 12th, 2019|Benjamin Farrer, Environment, Graig R. Klein|0 Comments|
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    Book Review: The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan Black

Book Review: The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan Black

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In the award-winning book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, Megan Black traces the activities of the US Department of the Interior from its founding in 1849 to the 1980s, showing how a government organ best known for managing domestic natural resources became a key site of soft power that supported and projected American power globally, particularly enabling the […]

October 13th, 2019|Book Reviews, Environment, Thomas Furse|0 Comments|
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The road to zero emissions

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The dice are loaded in the game to survive global heating. We need a radical plan to win, write Klaudia Chmielowska and Rod Dowler.

War-games are old hat. Destroying a tank, a battalion, even an army, pales to insignificance compared to laying waste to an entire planet in the global heating game. Let us say, the dial to climate catastrophe […]

September 21st, 2019|Environment, Klaudia Chmielowska|0 Comments|
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    When it comes to harmful air pollution, denser cities aren’t greener cities. 

When it comes to harmful air pollution, denser cities aren’t greener cities. 

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Where urban planning is concerned, the conventional wisdom is that more compact cities are greener. While this may be the case for greenhouse gas emissions, new research on US cities from Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi find that denser cities are also more likely to have greater concentrations of harmful air pollution which can be detrimental to human health and well-being.

Air pollution is bad for us. We all […]

August 15th, 2019|Environment, Felipe Carozzi, LSE CEP, LSE Comment, Sefi Roth |4 Comments|
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    War rhetoric is rarely the best way to communicate about climate change

War rhetoric is rarely the best way to communicate about climate change

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We must move away from the language of cost, hardship and sacrifice, and towards innovation, growth and investment opportunities, writes Josh Burke.

Wartime rhetoric, especially harking back to World War II, pervades public discourse in many fields. In the UK, this is currently a device associated particularly with the Brexit ‘debate’. But here and around the world such emotive framing […]

August 3rd, 2019|Environment, Josh Burke|0 Comments|
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