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August 27, 2024
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Climate Solutions Lab researchers awarded NSF grant to support planning for a new center
Researchers at the Watson Institute's Climate Solutions Lab were awarded a $100,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to support planning for a new Center on Clean Energy and Society (CES).
January 22, 2024
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Response Report to Canada’s Proposed Regulatory Framework for GHG Emissions from Oil and Gas
Climate Solutions Lab recently released an in-depth report authored by Jeff Colgan addressing Canada’s proposed Regulatory Framework for oil and gas emissions.
August 1, 2023
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Letting Europe’s Energy Crisis Go to Waste: The Ukraine War’s Massive Fossil Fuel Costs Fail to Accelerate Renewables
Jeff Colgan recently co-authored a report builds on CSL’s research that estimated the cost of the energy crisis.
December 1, 2022
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Next Stop for Climate Action: Making Emissions Visible and Pricing Them
Senior fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored an article for Rocky Mountain Institute titled, "Next Stop for Climate Action: Making Emissions Visible and Pricing Them."
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Mapping U.S. Military Dependence on Russian Fossil Fuels
Climate Solutions Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Alexander S. Gard-Murray and co-author Watson Institute National Defense Fellow Lt Col Theodore J. Shanks created a map of U.S. military dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
March 14, 2022
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Europe’s gas dilemma: Preparing for a winter without Russian gas
Jeff Colgan and co-author Miriam Hinthorn recently published a Climate Solutions White Paper on the threat of a full or partial cut-off of Russian natural gas to the European Union, countermeasures available, and the importance of transitioning to clean energy.
22 Countries Agreed To Establish Green Shipping Routes. That’s Big News.
Jan Stockbruegger recently wrote, "22 Countries Agreed To Establish Green Shipping Routes. That’s Big News," which explains why a new initiative may not only help build clean maritime industries, but also build support for more ambitious climate policies in shipping.
Is the United States Underplaying the Threat of Climate Change? Reevaluating the National Climate Assessment
Jeff Colgan and co-author Alexander Gard-Murray recently published a Climate Solutions White Paper focusing on how the summary findings directed at policymakers and technical audiences might be improved, and how a new publicfacing "Summary for American Families" could help the NCA communicate its results more broadly.
Could an Industrial Finance Corporation Help the United States Succeed with Clean Tech Manufacturing?
Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, recently wrote this white paper for the Climate Solutions Lab on clean tech manufacturing.
October 25, 2021
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National policy documents downplay the dangers of climate change
A new Brown University report critically examines the National Climate Assessment (NCA).
October 19, 2021
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Is cheap gasoline killing us? Fuel subsidies and under-taxation as a driver of obesity and public health problems worldwide
Jeff Colgan and co-author Miriam Hinthorn (Brown University) recently published a piece in Energy Research and Social Science on the relationship between fuel prices and the global obesity epidemic using data spanning 145 countries between 1998 and 2016.
August 9, 2021
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The Politics of Climate Change at the International Maritime Organization
Climate Solutions Lab affiliate Jan Stockbruegger recently wrote a White Paper focusing on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and it's role in climate change.
July 29, 2021
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Climate Change, Grand Strategy, and International Order
Jeff Colgan recently authored, "Climate Change, Grand Strategy, and International Order" a piece in which he identifies three different ways that various analysts of strategy and order think about climate change.
June 21, 2021
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Climate and Energy in the Transatlantic Relationship
Jeff Colgan recently published, "Climate and Energy in the Transatlantic Relationship" - a piece examining the relationship between climate change and changes in the transatlantic political landscape.
June 3, 2021
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Biden's Climate Report Card: 4 A's, 2 B's, 3 Incompletes
Jeff Colgan and co-authors Thomas N. Hale (University of Oxford) and Scott M. Moore (University of Pennsylvania) recently published "Biden's Climate Report Card: 4 A's, 2 B's, 3 Incompletes," in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
April 27, 2021
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Biden at 100 Days: A Climate Foreign-Policy Scorecard
Jeff D. Colgan and co-authors Thomas N. Hale (University of Oxford) and Scott M. Moore (University of Pennsylvania) recently published "Biden @ 100 DAYS: A Climate Foreign-Policy Scorecard," which examines the current administration's actions and commitment to reorienting U.S. foreign policy to meet the climate challenge.
January 6, 2021
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Energy and International Conflict
Jeff D. Colgan and Jan B. Stockbruegger co-wrote a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics entitled, "Energy and International Conflict" which reviews the ways in which energy has contributed to modern international wars and conflicts.
June 30, 2020
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Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change
In June 2020 Jeff Colgan co-wrote, "Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change," a piece focused on a dynamic theory of climate politics based on the present and future revaluation of assets that accelerate climate change, such as fossil fuel plants.
June 2, 2020
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Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential
In June 2020, Deborah Gordon co-wrote, "Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential," a study focused on assessing the lifecycle climate impacts of the oil and gas sector and reducing emissions in line with international climate targets.
November 6, 2019
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Methane Will Continue to Accelerate Climate Change
A new report co-authored by Deborah Gordon underscores the need to more accurately map, measure, and manage methane.