Small-scale fisheries governance
Small-scale fisheries' contribution to nutrition, food security, and poverty eradication is massive. A new report surveys the theory and practice of their governance.
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Impact Investing
What are investors getting out of environmental impact investing? A new report sheds light on how fund managers think about measurement and reporting of environmental returns.
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Value of Public Water Data
In an ongoing effort with the Aspen Institute to develop the foundations of an Internet of Water, a new Nicholas Institute working paper reviews the literature on the costs and benefits of government investments in public water data.
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Increasing Emissions Certainty
Could a federal carbon tax serve as an effective method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Brian Murray, Billy Pizer, and Christina Reichert examine the tradeoff between certainty about emissions and certainty about prices and costs.
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Internet of Water
A report from the Aspen Institute Dialogue Series on Water Data presents a vision for a national policy framework that addresses institutional barriers to scaling the integration of water data and information to support sustainable water management.
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Ecosystem Services Keynote Address
Ecosystem Services Program director Lydia Olander delivered the keynote address at Ecosystem Services: From Concept to Policy in Washington, D.C. on May 19, hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science & Technology Policy Fellowships.
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Adaptations to Maintain the Contributions of Small-Scale Fisheries to Food Security in the Pacific Islands
In several Pacific Island countries and territories, rapid population growth and inadequate management of coastal fish habitats and stocks is... Read More -
Data and Modeling Infrastructure for National Integration of Ecosystem Services into Decision Making: Expert Summaries
Resource managers face increasingly complex decisions as they attempt to manage for the long-term sustainability and the health of natural... Read More
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How Climate Change Will Hit the South’s Economy
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The Future of California's Cap and Trade Program
California has extended its innovative greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program to 2030, making changes to the program in the process. In this webinar, moderated by Brian Murray of the Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions, five experts on the cap-and-trade concept explain how those changes could affect the program’s functioning as well as linkages with cap-and-trade programs elsewhere.
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Joint Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord
Nicholas Institute director Tim Profeta and Environmental Economics director Brian Murray discuss President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, starting with the science that underlies the accord. Exiting the agreement, they say, will undermine the ability of the United States to shape solutions to the global challenge of climate change. They note that the withdrawal process will take several years—concluding near the 2020 election, which will put the issue of U.S. participation in the near-universal pact on the ballot.
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