President Obama will follow his promise of sweeping U.S. cuts in greenhouse gas emissions this weekend with a pledge of $3 billion to help poor countries afflicted by miseries linked to global warming, the White House confirmed today. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute, comments in Greenwire.

Nicholas Institute researchers discuss the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) emissions trading market in a new blog entry in The Hill.

Billy Pizer, an environmental economist at the Sanford School and a faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, considers whether tackling aviation emissions make sense in The Hill.

If you could choose how to curb greenhouse gas emissions, would you choose a carbon tax or cap-and-trade? Environmental economists have long debated this question, and it will be on many people’s minds in the run up to the climate meetings at which world leaders will attempt to reach agreement on how to limit global warming to 2°C in Lima (December 2014) and Paris (November–December 2015). This article by the Center for Global Development cites research by the Nicholas Institute's Billy Pizer.

In an RFF blog post, the Nicholas Institute’s Billy Pizer and his co-author Andrew Yates discuss their new paper, which explores whether key choices about delinking and the handling of banked permits can improve market outcomes when links between carbon programs are-or are at risk of being-severed. In general, the analysis found that costs will rise when markets are delinked and prices can diverge even before delinking occurs.

On a topic as controversial as regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, it's not surprising that opinions were hitting the media even before President Obama officially announced the proposed changes today. But if you wanted to go beyond the political hyperbole and know what was actually in the regulations, Duke professors were on hand to help. This Duke Today story features commentary from several Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions staff member

Next week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to publish the notice of proposed rulemaking to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, discusses the top things to look for in the new rule in The Hill.

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions work on policy options for petroleum refining, climate change policy, and a joint project  with the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative that would assist Duke University employees in evaluating and obtaining rooftop solar energy systems are featured in the Spring 2014 edition of Sanford Insights.

The latest U.N. report on global warming has already largely faded from the headlines, yet it might serve best as a long-term 'tool' for environmental advocates, experts say. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute, comments in this U.S. News & World Report article.

In a Policy Forum article in the March 21 edition of Science magazine, Duke University's Richard Newell, William Pizer and Daniel Raimi discuss the key lessons from a decade of experience with carbon markets. They also discuss what it might take for these markets to develop and possibly link together in the coming years and decades.