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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 15, 2016
Fossil Fuels
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Policy Response to Oil Price Volatility?
This guest post is authored by Jason Bordoff, professor of professional practice and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Publi…
May 20, 2010
Economics
Kerry-Lieberman is Looking Like a Nuclear Energy Jobs Bill
Trevor Houser and his colleagues at the Peterson Institute have a sharp economic analysis of the Kerry-Lieberman energy and climate bill out this morning. Take a look here. (There’s a lot more in it …
May 16, 2013
International Organizations
Doing Business at the World Bank
A showdown is looming at the World Bank over whether to discontinue or water down the Bank’s annual "Doing Business" Report. As reported here, and blogged about here, and here, China is leading the …
November 6, 2013
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Looking Past the Inbox: Report of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations
Every year, it seems, a new group of eminences grises issues a report deploring the state of the world and purporting to offer a roadmap out of our predicament. These documents tend to be short on im…
December 16, 2011
Climate Change
Another Perspective on the Durban Climate Talks
I argued earlier this week that many were overreacting to the outcome from the Durban climate talks. Trevor Houser, partner at RHG and visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute, posted his own though…