Report
Assessing Federal R&D Funding for Agricultural Climate Mitigation
New Report, "From Lab to Farm," highlights massive R&D funding gap for agricultural climate action.
· Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Emily Bass, Guido Núñez-Mujica
Nature Better nature through technology.
Conservation, land use, wildfire and climate, and the politics and economics of development, assembled into one category: the case that intensifying human activity on less land is how wild nature gets room to recover.
Issues
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Wildfires
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Climate Change
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Decoupling
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Economic Development
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Climate Politics
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Environmentalism
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Conservation
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Navigating NEPA
387 appellate NEPA cases and 1,800 opinions, filterable by state, project type and plaintiff, with the full dataset downloadable.
Nature work
Research, analysis and everything on the record across wildfires, climate change, decoupling and more.
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Analysis
Nature Won't Save the Planet
Advocates like to hype nature-based adaptations as solutions for developing countries. That's not what those countries need.
· Juzel Lloyd
Analysis
The “Failure” to Ban Fossil Fuel Projects in the Developing World at COP27 May Actually Save Lives.
For low-income countries, economic development necessitates more, not less, greenhouse gas emissions in the near term.
· Patrick Brown
Analysis
On the Differences Between Ecomodernism and Effective Altruism
In short: an unscalable ecocentrism, an unworkable longtermism, and an impractical anti-institutionalism.
· Alex Trembath
Report
Human Deaths from Hot and Cold Temperatures and Implications for Climate Change
Given the large number of deaths affected by temperature, there is significant public and scientific interest in the impact of global warming on human mortality.
· Patrick Brown
Analysis
Does the Loss and Damage Fund Need Nuclear?
As the details of the fund are hashed out, it would be wise to make use of the obvious pathway that it creates for including nuclear energy as a climate solution.
· Charlyne Smith
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Who leads this work
Ted Nordhaus
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Vijaya Ramachandran
Director, Energy and Development Email
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