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Response Report to Canada’s Proposed Regulatory Framework for GHG Emissions from Oil and Gas

January 22, 2024

The Government of Canada has issued a proposed Regulatory Framework for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the oil and gas sector, and invited public comment on the Framework by February 2024. This Climate Solutions Lab (CSL) report, based on input from experts at Brown University and the University of Toronto, provides suggestions to improve the effectiveness, credibility, and administrative simplicity of the Regulatory Framework, without any sacrifice to political feasibility.

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Letting Europe’s Energy Crisis Go to Waste: The Ukraine War’s Massive Fossil Fuel Costs Fail to Accelerate Renewables

August 1, 2023

Climate Solutions Lab Director Jeff Colgan recently co-authored a report titled "Letting Europe’s Energy Crisis Go to Waste: The Ukraine War’s Massive Fossil Fuel Costs Fail to Accelerate Renewables."

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Mapping U.S. Military Dependence on Russian Fossil Fuels

April 28, 2022

Climate Solutions Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Alexander S. Gard-Murray and co-author Watson Institute National Defense Fellow Lt Col Theodore J. Shanks created a map of U.S. military dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

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22 Countries Agreed To Establish Green Shipping Routes. That’s Big News.

November 30, 2021

Jan Stockbruegger recently wrote, "22 Countries Agreed To Establish Green Shipping Routes. That’s Big News," which explains why a new initiative may not only help build clean maritime industries, but also build support for more ambitious climate policies in shipping.

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Is the United States Underplaying the Threat of Climate Change? Reevaluating the National Climate Assessment

November 18, 2021

Jeff Colgan and co-author Alexander Gard-Murray recently published a Climate Solutions White Paper focusing on how the summary findings directed at policymakers and technical audiences might be improved, and how a new publicfacing "Summary for American Families" could help the NCA communicate its results more broadly.

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Could an Industrial Finance Corporation Help the United States Succeed with Clean Tech Manufacturing?

November 17, 2021

Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, recently wrote this white paper for the Climate Solutions Lab on clean tech manufacturing.

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Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change

May 11, 2021

Jeff D. Colgan and co-authors Thomas N. Hale (University of Oxford) and Jessica F. Green (University of Toronto) recently published, "Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change," which offers a dynamic theory of climate politics based on the present and future revaluation of assets.

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