Scholars often characterize local action to mitigate climate change as a puzzle. No locality’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) are sufficiently large to materially affect climate change; cities that reduce their […]
Local Action, Global Problem: Why and How New York City Is Tackling Climate Change Read More »
Over half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial
Global Sustainable Cities: City Governments and Our Environmental Future Read More »
Progressive cities and states have begun enacting policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, one of the leading sources of such emissions in the United States. The same jurisdictions
Equitable Electrification: Could City and State Policies Aggravate Energy Insecurity? Read More »
Progressive cities and states have begun enacting policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, one of the leading sources of such emissions in the United States. The same jurisdictions
Equitable Electrification: Could City and State Policies Aggravate Energy Insecurity? Read More »
As the climate crisis accelerates, policymakers are increasingly turning to novel forms of regulation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These include regulating the emissions of buildings, which account for
Building Better Building Performance Standards Read More »
Long a mainstay of environmental policy, emissions trading programs have faced increasing criticism in recent years. Critics have assailed trading programs for failing to generate the scale of greenhouse gas
Toward Tradeable Building Performance Standards Read More »
