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Issue Brief — May 12, 2022
Industrial Decarbonization and Competitiveness: A Domestic Benchmark Intensity Approach
This issue brief suggests an approach to decarbonizing the industrial sector that involves a performance metric, providing equal treatment for foreign and domestically produced industrial goods while addressing competitiveness concerns.
Resources Radio — May 3, 2022
Getting to the Bottom of the Barrel: Understanding Volatile Oil Markets, with Helima Croft
Helima Croft explains oil markets: what’s happening right now, why they’ve been volatile, and what could determine what happens next.
Media Highlight — Apr 15, 2022
S&P Global: "Ukraine Crisis Injects Urgency, Complexity into Energy Transition Plans"
An article in S&P Global details RFF's new Global Energy Outlook report and the related RFF Live event about the report and its implications.
Press Release — Apr 7, 2022
As Energy Prices and Carbon Emissions Rebound, Uncertainty Pervades the Global Energy Future
Resources for the Future’s Global Energy Outlook 2022 shows our world at a crossroads – with volatile energy prices amid global tumult, 19 scenarios provide divergent potential futures for the energy mix and climate change.
Issue Brief — May 12, 2022
Industrial Decarbonization and Competitiveness: A Domestic Benchmark Intensity Approach
This issue brief suggests an approach to decarbonizing the industrial sector that involves a performance metric, providing equal treatment for foreign and domestically produced industrial goods while addressing competitiveness concerns.
Report — Apr 7, 2022
Global Energy Outlook 2022: Turning Points and Tension in the Energy Transition
RFF's annual Global Energy Outlook report examines a range of projections for the global energy system, summarizing key implications for global energy consumption, emissions, and geopolitics.
Explainer — Nov 10, 2021
Border Carbon Adjustments 101
An introduction to border carbon adjustments, their components, benefits and costs, and the role of the World Trade Organization in their implementation.
Working Paper — Oct 21, 2021
Export Rebates and Import Charges for Border Tax Adjustments Under an Upstream US GHG Tax: Estimates and Methods
In this working paper, RFF researchers examine how representative estimates of export rebates and import charges can be determined using available information.
RFF Live — Apr 7, 2022
The Global Energy Outlook 2022: Turning Points and Tension in the Energy Transition
An in-depth panel discussion on some of the potential long-term outlooks for energy markets in a year marked by progress and peril
RFF Live — Jan 11, 2022
Big Decisions: 2022
Exploring big decisions in climate, energy, and the environment in the year ahead
RFF Live — Nov 9, 2021
Carbon Border Measures: Policies to Combat Leakage and Encourage Climate Ambition
A panel discussion will explore recent border measure proposals in the European Union and United States
RFF Live — Nov 3, 2021
Carbon Border Measures: What Happens with Ambitious Climate Policies?
Examining whether net-zero policies cause emissions leakage—and how effectively border measures can mitigate it
Media Highlight — Apr 15, 2022
S&P Global: "Ukraine Crisis Injects Urgency, Complexity into Energy Transition Plans"
An article in S&P Global details RFF's new Global Energy Outlook report and the related RFF Live event about the report and its implications.
Press Release — Apr 7, 2022
As Energy Prices and Carbon Emissions Rebound, Uncertainty Pervades the Global Energy Future
Resources for the Future’s Global Energy Outlook 2022 shows our world at a crossroads – with volatile energy prices amid global tumult, 19 scenarios provide divergent potential futures for the energy mix and climate change.
Media Highlight — Mar 23, 2022
Today’s Dual Energy Crises Need a Common Solution
Today’s Dual Energy Crises Need a Common Solution
Media Highlight — Mar 16, 2022
Spending Deal Undercuts Biden's UN Climate Pledge
RFF Vice President for Research and Policy Engagement Billy Pizer talks with CQ Roll Call about where the United States stands on its climate finance pledges.
Resources Radio — May 3, 2022
Getting to the Bottom of the Barrel: Understanding Volatile Oil Markets, with Helima Croft
Helima Croft explains oil markets: what’s happening right now, why they’ve been volatile, and what could determine what happens next.
Resources Radio — Apr 5, 2022
2021: Carbon Markets in Recovery, with Stefano De Clara
Stefano De Clara explores how global emissions trading systems have responded to economic recovery from COVID and ambitious emissions reduction goals.
On the Issues — Mar 18, 2022
On the Issues: US Energy Independence, Moon Collision, and More
A biweekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars. This week: US energy independence, moon collision, and more.
Resources Magazine — Feb 25, 2022
In Pursuit of a Sustainable Space Environment: Economic Issues in Regulating Space
Molly Macauley’s 1993 analysis of space debris anticipated, by many years, a problem that now receives routine press attention. Because of related uncertainties and complex benefit-cost considerations, related regulations must be considered carefully.
