Climate change policies have become priorities for many local governments across many countries. In the United States, however, skepticism of climate science and political motives remains dominant in much of the
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) an ambitious agenda for mitigating climate change, fostering human development and protecting the biosphere has been set by the international community. Its implementation requires climate policies to go hand in hand ...
Heatwaves in lakes are increasing with climate change, but are typically studied at the surface; little is known about heatwave dynamics with depth. This study finds subsurface heatwaves last longer, but are less intense than surface heatwaves and have increased in frequency over the past 40 ...
transportation policies, and electricity sector policies that have climate change implications (Grant et al.2014; Bromley-Trujillo and Holman2020). In the U.S., states have led in this area since the early 2000s as detailed in scholarly work (e.g., Rabe...
The inclusion of losses of such foreign lives and settlements in cost benefit analysis (CBA) could have large implications not only for U.S. climate change policy but also for policies adopted by other nations and the practice of CBA generally. One difficult problem is how to assess U.S. ...
How human-amplified climate change affects weather events The latest summer season outlook by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center shows above-average temperatures are favored across much of the country during the summer months. May 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM ...
Therefore, the determinants of the non-renewable and renewable energy demand are crucial for designing climate change policies in developing and developed economies. Since the early 1990s, the transformation from non-renewable to renewable energy has increased in advanced countries and some developing ...
you’re interested in engineering solutions to help society adapt to the effects of climate change or want to help governments adopt policies that can mitigate it, experts agree that there are all sorts of ways for students to make a career out of taking action to addre...
Climate-related investment increased significantly in 2022, defying the considerable geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds that roiled most global capital markets. Due in part to the policies of the United States and Europe aimed at zeroing out emissions by 2050, that growth seems o...
The implications of these policies are alarming. The United States bears the greatest historical responsibility for climate change. As the world’s largest economy and leading fossil fuel exporter, its role in shaping global climate action is critical. ...