Climate Change

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Sims Gallagher quoted in CS Monitor on global climate fund

A new world of global climate action is coming into view here in Morocco – a world without US leadership on the issue. The test now is whether global cooperation can proceed and grow at a time when America – in recent years a leader in the push to reduce carbon emissions – has a president-elect who opposes the very concept of climate response.
November 15, 2016
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Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation

As the United States and China put new policies in place to achieve their national targets and fulfill their domestic and international commitments, both countries confront a common challenge: mobilizing sufficient investment at home to meet domestic energy, climate, and environmental protection goals, while at the same time steering outbound investments toward sustainable projects in other nations that support, rather than undermine, those nations’ climate targets.
October 31, 2016
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Climate Alliance maps Amazonian oil reserves and impacts of extraction

Dr. Tracey Osborne, partnering with Amazon Watch on the Climate Alliance Mapping Project, built a platform that factually and compellingly demonstrates the geographic footprint of Amazonian oil reserves and the human and natural resources its extraction threatens. Specific outcomes of this Switzer Leadership Grant project include:
October 27, 2016
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Miner's work on building climate resilience policy featured on local television

A University of Maine PhD Candidate is developing policy to build climate resilience. Kimberley Miner is studying earth and climate sciences in Orono. She’s analyzing the threat of pesticides and organic pollutants in glaciers. After completing her dissertation, Miner hopes to develop a model that analyzes the risk of downstream communities which could be impacted by polluted glacial melt waters.
October 20, 2016
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50 Most Solar-Saturated Zip Codes in California

Fellow Joe Rand says research from the Berkeley Lab, Elevate Energy and the Center for Sustainable Energy shows that buyers think solar is a desirable feature, but that they, realtors and appraisers need more help to find and value solar homes.
October 17, 2016
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Hyman wins international women's PEO Scholar Award

PEO, the international women's philanthropic educational organization, that awards scholarships, grants, and loans to women around the world, recently awarded two Connecticut graduate students a total of $30,000 through the Scholar Awards Program.
September 28, 2016
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Hsu's work mentioned in article on latest Five-Year Plan to address climate change in China

The world is watching how the United States and China, the two biggest carbon emitters and economies in the world, have committed to implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change.
September 27, 2016
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Hall mentioned in Boston Globe article on Appalachia's future beyond coal

Out-of-work Kentuckians are increasingly turning to farming “out of necessity,” said Martin Richards, who runs Kentucky’s Community Farm Alliance. His group works with eight farmers’ markets in eastern Kentucky, including one Howard helped found with another seventh-generation Kentuckian, Nathan Hall; Richards says twice as many farmers participate as did five years ago.
September 26, 2016
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Pendleton quoted on risks of climate change to L.A. beach homes

Scientists predict that by 2100, thanks to global warming, Earth's oceans could swell six feet higher than they are today. If that happens, melting ice caps would inundate southern Florida and huge swaths of Louisiana, where "there's not a lot of land above sea level," says Linwood Pendleton, an environmental economist at the European Institute for Marine Studies.
September 16, 2016
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Callahan co-author on study showing low-income Californians benefit from cap-and-trade

Cap-and-trade forces the biggest producers of greenhouse gas — including electricity utilities, natural gas utilities and fuel distributors — to pay to pollute. Low-income Californians feel the pinch when gasoline, electricity and natural gas prices increase. And it’s logical to think that the state’s cap-and-trade program might add to those expenses. But this program is generating billions of dollars to provide an array of benefits to Californians, especially those living in disadvantaged communities.
September 12, 2016