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Adaptation

Resources for the Future scholars are engaged with the linked issues of energy and climate policy on numerous fronts. Much of the work in this area is conducted within two RFF Centers: the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy and the Center for Energy Economics and Policy. Issues studied include how to cost-effectively constrain greenhouse gas emissions and limit cost uncertainties, strategies for promoting developing country engagement in climate change mitigation, policies to reduce emissions through averted deforestation and afforestation, and the question of climate change adaptation. Additionally, RFF researchers are tackling the question of U.S. energy security by examining options for reducing U.S. dependence on oil, and exploring the environmental and economic issues surrounding greater use of natural gas.
FEATURES
Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World
In a new discussion paper, William Shobe and RFF Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw highlight the importance of accounting for the federal relationship between national and subnational levels of government.
Assessing the Energy Efficiency Information Gap
New research from RFF scholars highlights the role information plays in the adoption of energy efficiency technologies.
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PROJECTS
Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options
RFF's three-year project to analyze and assess U.S. energy options and provide tools for decision makers to use in formulating future policy choices.
Forest Carbon Initiative
A project to support the integration of forestry policy into emerging global greenhouse gas emissions markets has been launched by RFF. The work holds promise for future international climate agreements efforts to maximize sustainable development around the world.
U.S. Global Leadership Initiative
An initiative to develop new ideas for United States leadership in articulating a post-kyoto vision for international climate policy.
The Global Adaptation Atlas
This project will develop a dynamic new online tool to allow scientists, policymakers, and citizens to visualize the climate impacts likely to affect their region(s), what adaptation efforts activities are underway, and what gaps need to be filled.
PUBLICATIONS
Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy
Dallas Burtraw, Arthur G. Fraas, Nathan Richardson
RFF Discussion Paper 12-05 | February 2012
 
Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World
William Shobe, Dallas Burtraw
RFF Discussion Paper 12-04 | January 2012
 
A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package
Joseph E. Aldy
RFF Discussion Paper 12-03 | January 2012
 
Regulating Greenhouse Gases from Coal Power Plants under the Clean Air Act
Joshua Linn, Erin Mastrangelo, Dallas Burtraw
RFF Discussion Paper 11-43 | January 2012
 
Risk Premia and the Social Cost of Carbon: A Review
Kousky, C., Kopp, R. E., and R. M. Cooke
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal | Vol. 5, 2011-21
 
Playing Without Aces: Offsets and the Limits of Flexibility Under Clean Air Act Climate Policy
Nathan Richardson
RFF Discussion Paper 11-49 | December 2011
 
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