Comprehensive Climate Strategies
RFF researchers objectively design and evaluate strategies for governments around the world to help economies adapt to and mitigate climate change while addressing equity and cost.
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Carbon Pricing
Examining the design and implications of carbon pricing policies for the economy and the environment
Climate Finance and Financial Risk
Improving the measurement and modeling of climate risks to financial markets
Communities in the Energy Transition
Exploring solutions to the challenges raised by a transition away from fossil fuels
Federal Climate Policy
Using the best-available data to inform US federal action to address climate change
International Climate Policy
Providing global analysis and policy solutions needed to achieve ambitious climate targets
Solar Radiation Modification
RFF scholars are working to improve our understanding of the risks, potential benefits, and other uncertain implications of solar geoengineering as one approach among others to address climate change.
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POLITICO: “Behind Closed Doors, the Politics of Solar Geoengineering Are Shifting”
This article pulls from comments made by attendees of a workshop cohosted by Resources for the Future.
Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
This article highlights select US-relevant topics and syntheses particularly valuable for future national, sub-national, and sectoral climate assessments.
Product Carbon Intensity Standards Can Reduce Emissions While Keeping Costs Low
A policy that limits average emissions for products could be more politically palatable than carbon taxes or cap and trade. But research is needed about how best to implement such a policy.
Climate Adaptation Policy Needs an Economic Foundation
Economists need to conduct and translate research that will help policymakers, business leaders, community organizations, and funders create effective climate-adaptation policies so that people can thrive in a changing world.
Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
This article highlights select US-relevant topics and syntheses particularly valuable for future national, sub-national, and sectoral climate assessments.
The Evolving US Homeowners Insurance Market: Four Major Trends and What We Know About Them
This issue brief dives into four important issues with the current US homeowners insurance market: rising premiums, increasing policy cancellations and nonrenewals, growth in residual market plans, and coverage gaps.
Developing Double Materiality for Climate-Related Financial Policy
In this comment, RFF Senior Fellow Kevin Stiroh argues that effective financial policy requires more clarity on the underlying relationships between climate change, policy, and the financial system.
Decomposing the Double Materiality of Climate-Related Financial Risk
This paper develops a framework to define and unpack double materiality by mapping how climate‑related risks affect banks and how banks’ activities shape those risks, along with resulting feedback and spillover effects.
2026 RFF and Harvard SRM Social Science Research Workshop
2026 RFF and Harvard SRM Social Science Research Workshop
2025 RFF and Harvard SRM Social Science Research Workshop: Governance in a Fractured World
2025 RFF and Harvard SRM Social Science Research Workshop: Governance in a Fractured World
2024 SRM Social Science Workshop: Cooperative vs. Noncooperative Climate Interventions
2024 SRM Social Science Workshop: Cooperative vs. Noncooperative Climate Interventions
Green Cities: Strategies for Decreasing Construction Emissions
Green Cities: Strategies for Decreasing Construction Emissions
Product Carbon Intensity Standards Can Reduce Emissions While Keeping Costs Low
A policy that limits average emissions for products could be more politically palatable than carbon taxes or cap and trade. But research is needed about how best to implement such a policy.
Climate Adaptation Policy Needs an Economic Foundation
Economists need to conduct and translate research that will help policymakers, business leaders, community organizations, and funders create effective climate-adaptation policies so that people can thrive in a changing world.
In Focus: Data Centers and Electricity Prices
In this In Focus video, Jesse Buchsbaum breaks down the impact of new data centers on electricity prices, how the siting of planned data centers is changing, and how government regulation will be key to ensuring that communities benefit from data centers.
In Focus: The Proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
In this In Focus Video, Vice President for Research and Policy Engagement Carlos Martín unpacks this proposed rule and describes its implications for independent and rigorous scientific research in the United States.
POLITICO: “Behind Closed Doors, the Politics of Solar Geoengineering Are Shifting”
This article pulls from comments made by attendees of a workshop cohosted by Resources for the Future.
E&E News: “The Stock Market May Have a Climate Change Problem”
RFF Senior Fellow Kevin Stiroh’s commentary is featured in this story about climate-related financial risk.
Econofact Chats: “The Challenge of Energy Security”
RFF President and CEO Billy Pizer discusses the nuances of energy security in this podcast episode.
The Atlantic: “How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Soul”
A former RFF research analyst muses on the future of the environmental movement.
