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Mayor of Bonn Ashok-Alexander Sridharan, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and COP 23 President Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji attend the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference, in Bonn, Germany, November 2017.

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Climate Change

All Climate Politics Is Local

Washington may have walked away from climate commitments, but subnational groups are unlikely to back down.

Angel Hsu and Amy Weinfurter

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Climate Change Oct 31, 2018 List

How to Understand the Geopolitics of Climate Change

As the World Warms, How Should States Respond?

Climate Change Sep 24, 2018 Snapshot

All Climate Politics Is Local

Washington may have walked away from climate commitments, but subnational groups are unlikely to back down.

Angel Hsu and Amy Weinfurter

Climate Change Sep 18, 2018 Snapshot

Climate Change Is a Chronic Condition

Managing the impacts of climate change requires a fundamentally different approach from the way most policymakers currently think about the issue.

Kate Gordon and Julio Friedmann

Houses sit in floodwater caused by Hurricane Florence, in this aerial picture, on the outskirts of Lumberton, North Carolina, September 2018.

Environment Aug 9, 2018 Snapshot

Water Wars on the Nile

Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam project—set to become Africa's biggest hydroelectic dam—has set the country on a collision course with Egypt. The outcome may well hinge on...

Daniel Benaim and Michael Wahid Hanna

Environment Jul 31, 2018 Snapshot

Climate Extremes and Global Health

New research in climate science indicates that extreme events, such as heat waves, the collapse of major ice sheets, and mass extinctions, are becoming dramatically...

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Partha Dasgupta, Joachim von Braun, and David G. Victor

A helicopter dropping water on the Carr fire in California, July 2018

Environment July/August 2018 Comment

Warming World

The disruption to the earth’s climate will ultimately command more attention and resources and have a greater influence on the global economy and international...

Joshua Busby

A man walks in the flooded streets in Barlovento in the state of Miranda outside Caracas December 1, 2010.

Economics July/August 2018 Essay

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working

In theory, carbon pricing makes sense, but in practice, it isn’t doing much about climate change.

Jeffrey Ball

Bad atmospherics: smokestacks in Jilin, China, February 2013.

Environment Mar 7, 2018 Response

The Truth About the Two-Degree Target

Global emissions have risen faster in the 20 years since the world ratified the two-degree target than they did over the 20 years before.

Ted Nordhaus

A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 2010.

Environment Feb 28, 2018 Response

Don’t Abandon the Paris Temperature Target

To abandon the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels would be a grave mistake.

Jennifer Morgan

Droplets of water fall from a melting ice block harvested from Greenland and installed on Place du Pantheon for a project called Ice Watch Paris, in Paris, December 2015.

Climate Change Feb 8, 2018 Snapshot

The Two-Degree Delusion

The two-degree target, although arbitrary, continues to maintain a talismanic hold over global efforts to address climate change.

Ted Nordhaus

Smoke rises from the coal power plant in Jaenschwalde, Germany, February 2018.

Energy Nov 13, 2017 Snapshot

Why Is Trump's Energy Department Lumping Coal and Nuclear Together?

The Trump administration has proposed a controversial policy to provide large subsidies to both nuclear reactors and coal power plants.

Varun Sivaram and Madison Freeman

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shakes hands with guest after attending his swearing in ceremony at the Executive Office in Washington, March 2017.

Climate Change Aug 4, 2017 Snapshot

China's Coal Problem

Despite China's averred commitment to climate action, Beijing’s foreign energy investments so far paint a drastically different picture.

Sagatom Saha and Theresa Lou

Climate Change Jul 17, 2017 Snapshot

Introduction

Gideon Rose

Environment Summer 1982 Essay

Society, Science and Climate Change [Excerpt]

Over the more than four-and-a-half billion years since the formation of the planet Earth, its climate has remained remarkably stable, and has apparently sustained life...

William W. Kellogg and Robert Schware

Climate Change April 1978 Essay

What Might Man-Induced Climate Change Mean? [Excerpt]

Climate has always influenced human affairs. There are now increasing signs that man may in turn be altering global climate. This could change economic, political and...

Charles F. Cooper

Climate Change Jun 5, 2017 Snapshot

Why Trump Pulled the U.S. Out of the Paris Accord

Trump’s decision to withdraw the nation from the Paris climate agreement was not based on science or sound economics, but on a confused, misguided, and simply...

Robert N. Stavins

Environment Jun 5, 2017 Snapshot

Trump's Paris Agreement Withdrawal in Context

Trump’s decision, and his inane rationale for it, is, in the end, what one can expect after decades of climate activists' supporting prioritizing symbolic action and...

Ted Nordhaus and Alex Trembath

U.S. President Donald Trump departs after announcing his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, June 2017.

Environment May 21, 2017 Snapshot

Catastrophe and the Climate

Oren Cass replies to Michael Mann's comments on his essay about climate change and environmental catastrophe.

Oren Cass

A coal-fired power station near Cottbus, Germany, December 2009.

Environment July/August 2017 Essay

Paris Isn't Burning

Powerful economic and political forces will prevent Trump from destroying the Paris agreement. But he can still cause the United States serious diplomatic and economic...

Brian Deese

Captain Planet: Obama at a UN climate summit in New York City, September 2014.

Environment July/August 2017 Essay

Trump and the Environment

Trump’s environmental agenda will hurt Americans’ health and the U.S. economy. But it is not too late for the administration to change course.

Fred Krupp

Green day: the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., April 2017

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How to Understand the Geopolitics of Climate Change

All Climate Politics Is Local

Climate Change Is a Chronic Condition

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Warming World

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working

The Truth About the Two-Degree Target

Don’t Abandon the Paris Temperature Target

The Two-Degree Delusion

Why Is Trump's Energy Department Lumping Coal and Nuclear Together?

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What Might Man-Induced Climate Change Mean? [Excerpt]

Why Trump Pulled the U.S. Out of the Paris Accord

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Paris Isn't Burning

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