Renewable energy is an important source to tackle against climate change, as the latest IPCC report…
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Why I like the Volkswagen emissions settlement
When the Volkswagen emissions control scandal broke into the headlines in September, I wrote here how…
The role of public policy
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris agreement on climate action present…
What it will take to deliver on the Paris climate agreement
The Paris climate agreement, recently signed onto by 196 countries, is a milestone in recognizing the…
A crucial handoff between United Nations climate chiefs
Among the United Nations’ top diplomats, Christiana Figueres may not be one of the tallest, but…
On Earth Day, bring together the dreamers and the plodders on climate change
A schism is opening between two groups calling for action on climate change: the dreamers and…
What we’ve learned, and what we shouldn’t misunderstand
Six years ago today, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in the U.S. Gulf of…
Green development and U.N. sustainable development goals
Event Information March 30, 2016 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST Brookings-Tsinghua Center Beijing 2015 marked…
A policy change with cascading outcomes
In the wake of the COP21 international climate negotiations that culminated in the Paris Agreement to…
Former Governors Bill Ritter and Christie Todd Whitman discuss the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and recent Supreme Court decision
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed implementation of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), preventing the…