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| RFF Names New University Fellows |
| Researchers from Princeton, Ohio State, and University of Chicago Law School have been appointed as RFF’s newest University Fellows. |
| Space as the Canonical "Global Commons": An Introduction to its Economics |
| RFF Senior Fellow Molly Macauley explores the management of our most extensive resource-space-and addresses problems of space debris, planetary exploration, and airwave allocation. |
| What Would Environmentalists Do with ANWR? |
| In a July 18 article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, RFF Visiting Fellow Matthew Kotchen suggests that the potential payoff in revenues from Alaskan oil would be attractive – even to opponents of drilling. |
| Global Markets for Forest Carbon |
| In a new paper, Nigel Purvis and Erin Myers recommend ways that the international community could accelerate development of market mechanisms for forest carbon assets. |
| Voluntary Climate Programs: What Do They Deliver? |
| New research by RFF scholars finds that while voluntary programs can promote emission reductions, it would be a mistake to count on dramatic impacts.
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| Floodproofing the Future |
| The best way to reduce damage from floods is to keep people out of harm's way, argues Carolyn Kousky in a recent op-ed published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Kousky, a new fellow, joined RFF in September. |
| Senate Testimony: RFF's Kopp on Implications of IEA Assessment |
| In testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senior Fellow Ray Kopp outlined complementary policies needed for low-carbon energy technologies to take hold. |
| Transfer of Development Rights in U.S. Communities |
| Senior Fellows Margaret Walls and Virginia McConnell analyze programs from around the country to determine why some have succeeded and others have languished. |
| A Look at Lieberman-Warner |
| As the U.S. Senate prepares to debate America's Climate Security Act of 2008 - better known as Lieberman-Warner - RFF has prepared an on-line backgrounder on its key provisions. |
| A Call for U.S. Leadership on "Green" Accounting |
| RFF Senior Fellow Jim Boyd makes the case for developing an accounting system to monitor the "natural economy," and says removing congressional roadblocks is the first step. |
| Revamping Regulation |
| An RFF workshop bringing together government officials, economists, and legal experts launches an initiative to examine potential reforms to traditional benefit-cost analysis that would respond to concerns of critics. |
| Do Crises Tear the Fabric of Oil Trade? |
| Gilbert White Fellow Robert Weiner finds that the world oil market works differently during a crisis; trading itself is disrupted, and trading companies--the glue that holds the market together--play a diminished role. |
| Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes? |
| RFF Senior Fellow Timothy J. Brennan examines the extent to which overall energy security is affected by competition in the electricity sector. |
| Extending the Cure hosts a discussion on their inaugural report. |
| Senior Fellow Ramanan Laxminarayan and colleagues explore antibiotic resistance and how incentive-based policies and lessons from natural resource management can illuminate potential solutions. |
| Conference on Anti-Malarial Drug Treatments |
| More than 60 experts from national malaria control programs, the World Health Organization, malaria drug development and academia were brought together by Resources for the Future in a first-of-a-kind gathering. |
| Paving the Way for U.S. Climate Leadership |
| Nigel Purvis, a former senior U.S. climate negotiator and current RFF visiting scholar, recommends that the United States negotiate climate change executive agreements rather than Kyoto-style treaties.
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| Can We Green the Grid? |
| RFF researchers analyze the chicken-and-egg relationship between Renewable Portfolio Standards and federal transmission corridors to identify potential policy conflicts and opportunities for coordination. |
| RFF in ClimateWire |
| A recent ClimateWire piece covers the "safety valve" concept in CO2 emissions trading first developed by RFF's Ray Kopp, Billy Pizer, and Richard Morgenstern. More recent contributions by Pizer and RFF's Joe Aldy are also discussed. |
| What Drives Participation in State Voluntary Cleanup Programs? |
| In a new discussion paper, authored by RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman, University of Michigan Professor Thomas P. Lyon, Virginia Tech Associate Professor Kris Wernstedt, and RFF Research Associate Sarah Darley, analysis of an Oregon program sheds light on state efforts to remediate properties contaminated with hazardous waste. |
| Climate Change: A Global Problem Requiring a Global Solution. Or Not... |
| Kathleen McGinty, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and former chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, discussed the ability of existing approaches- such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, and corn-based ethanol- to address climate change. |
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