Explore different perspectives on the health, energy demand and economic effects of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's developing Clean Power Plan at the workshop "The Clean Power Plan: Health, Energy Demand and Economic Effects." Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions faculty fellow Billy Pizer will be among the speakers on a panel focused on the economic effects of the Clean Power Plan.

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University will co-host a side event at the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference 20th yearly session of the Conference of Parties meeting in Lima, Peru. 

The Fifth Annual Triangle Law and Econ Conference—Rethinking Regulation and Reform: Behavioral Economics and the Regulatory State—will address issues at the intersection of behavioral economics and law with a special focus on the applications of decision science, choice architecture, and nudging to law, regulation, and policy. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion, rather than canned presentations between panelists, that will make for an engaging, generative, and fun examina- tion into a particular issue from the lens of behavioral law and economics wit

Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak during a session on carbon market structure at the Navigating the American Carbon World Conference March 27. Since Jan. 1, the California and Québec carbon markets have been formally linked. What impact will this have in California and Québec? What is the value of such linkages? What jurisdiction will be next – Washington, Ontario, or someplace else? This session will examine the California-Québec linkage and the potential impact of other partners joining the market.

Join the Forum for Scholars and Publics from noon to 1:30 pm. Feb. 7 for a discussion by the Sanford School of Public Policy's Philip Cook and the Nicholas Institute's Billy Pizer. Cook and Pizer will talk about the challenges and rewards of conducting research on issues of profound public concern. The discussion will be moderated by WUNC’s Leoneda Inge.

Lunch will be served. For those that cannot attend, the event will be live streamed.

Two researchers from the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions will participate in the American Economic Association's 2014 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jan. 3-4.

Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute, will participate in a panel discussion on the options for a new international climate regime arising from the Durban platform for enhanced action at 8 a.m. Jan. 3.

Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak at the University of Cambridge on "Carbon Markets, Linking Programs, and the Future of Climate Change Mitigation," Dec. 3. 

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Director Tim Profeta and Faculty Fellow Billy Pizer will moderate panels at the Duke University Energy Conference on October 30.

The annual student-led event aims at bringing together thought leaders in industry, government and academia to fuel independent analysis on energy markets, trends, policies and technologies. Keynote speakers include Ralph Eads, vice chair of Jeffries Co.; Simon Rich, chairman of RKI Exploration; and Bob Inglis, former U.S. representative of South Carolina.