The U.S. government should adopt a simple, market-based solution to climate change.

(2018). Carbon taxes and greenhouse gas emissions trading systems: what have we learned? Climate Policy: Vol. 18, No. 8, pp. 955-966.

Carbon pricing programs like cap and trade carry enormous political costs and few environmental benefits. We should abandon them — and instead pursue transformative climate policies that deliver...

Almost 10 years ago, California’s legislature passed Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. AB 32 set the most ambitious legally binding cl...

The new European Commission is considering the introduction of a ‘carbon border tax’. This column argues that the current EU legal framework and earlier policy proposals for border carbon adjustments

Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter

This paper updates estimates of fossil fuel subsidies, defined as fuel consumption times the gap between existing and efficient prices (i.e., prices warranted by supply costs, environmental costs,...

(2014). California’s energy and climate policy: A full plate, but perhaps not a model policy. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 26-34.

Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement will require net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050 and substantial reductions before then. It will also require collaboration with China, which has emerged as...

The convergence of the climate and coronavirus crisis will be catastrophic. Now is the time to deploy a green stimulus