The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions has merged with the Duke University Energy Initiative to create a new organization: the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. Learn more about the merger.
The Nicholas Institute improves environmental policymaking worldwide through objective, fact-based research to confront the climate crisis, clarify the economics of limiting carbon pollution, harness emerging environmental markets, put the value of nature's benefits on the balance sheet, develop adaptive water management approaches, and identify other strategies to attain community resilience.
Dr. Brian Murray is the interim director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University, an organization created by the merger of the Duke University Energy Initiative and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Before the merger, Murray directed the Energy Initiative and previously served for eleven years as director of the environmental economics program at the Nicholas Institute.
