The Climate Emergency
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Green Technology Might Just Be Enough to Save Us
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Plenty of reasons for optimism emerged from this year’s COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. The United States is back in the Paris Agreement, both China and the US have pledged to reduce carbon emissions (Friedman 2021), and many other countries have made additional pledges, including cutting methane emissions and phasing…
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China-US Dispute On Clean Energy: Economic and Geopolitical Stakes
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Jean Vilbert is an academic in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and a Resident Fellow at the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (University of Wisconsin). A recent report from the International Energy Agency shows that in 2020, renewable electricity production increased at its fastest pace in…
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The City Is Not Designed for Women
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As stated by author and feminist-issues researcher Caroline Criado-Perez, the world is designed mostly by men with mostly other men in mind. The gender-based gap in data has been known to exist for a long time, and male-biased data has affected the living experiences of women in oft-realized but nether-talked…
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Climate Change is Disproportionally Affecting Mental Health in Developing Countries
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Dharrnesha Inbah Rajah is a MA in International Development and Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Beyond witnessing one of the worst pandemics in modern times, 2020 was also the warmest year on record and saw horrifying wildfires from the U.S. to Australia.…
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Labor, Business, and the Political Barriers to Climate Action
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For a brief moment in 1988, America seemed ready to confront climate change. Scientist James Hansen’s senate testimony on rising temperatures received widespread media coverage, a Global Climate Protection Act passed with bipartisan support in Congress, and even incoming Republican president George H. W. Bush spent his campaign discussing the…
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Insights on Biden Administration’s Climate Policy: Interview with Professor Amir Jina
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Amir Jina is an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, UChicago. His research focuses on the role of the environment and environmental change in shaping of how societies develop. He has conducted fieldwork related to climate change adaptation with communities in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Uganda. Professor…