The world is making inadequate progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In November, climate institutes collaborated on the State of Climate Action report explaining that efforts to limit average global temperature increases are failing across almos... More »
There is a growing awareness about the harmful effects of wildfire smoke and how those effects vary across socioeconomic groups. A new study by Berke et al. in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that differences in groups’ behavior, influenced by socioeconomic re... More »
While much of global warming research focuses on the natural world — considering how climate change impacts ecosystems, agriculture, and biodiversity — a new wave of research studies how climate change will reshape the social and economic world. In this emergi... More »
As climate change has altered environments across the globe, it has caused mass migration. For example, an intense drought in Honduras recently led thousands of people to leave their homes and head north to Mexico for an opportunity to earn an agriculture-base... More »
This piece, first published on July 6, 2016, is being republished as part of the Chicago Policy Review‘s 20th Anniversary Series. Please visit us here to learn more about the series from our Executive Editors.Although the majority of the scientific community a... More »
Although the majority of the scientific community agrees that Earth’s climate is warming, there is still considerable public debate about whether or not climate change is happening and how serious the government’s response should be. Indeed, a recent report fr... More »
With less than five percent of the world’s population, the United States consumes about one-fifth (21 percent) of the world’s energy.In a working paper for The Hamilton Project published in 2012, Greenstone and Looney find that the true social cost (private co... More »
A new study models the long-run effects of global warming on agricultural productivity and its impact on migration flows in low- and middle-income countries. More »
Society is accruing a large economic benefit from the shale gas boom. While more evidence is needed to calculate the costs of the externalities associated with techniques such as fracking, those costs would need to be very large to justify preventing this new ... More »
A study of past megadroughts and predicted climate change indicate that the Southwest and Central Plains could face decades-long droughts in the coming century. More »
A new study examines the role of uncertainty in modeling the social cost of carbon use. Its conclusions indicate that the optimal carbon dioxide tax and abatement level may be double the estimates of a widely used model. More »