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May 23, 2022 Canary Media
Climate Solutions Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Alexander S. Gard-Murray co-authored an article on the HEATR Act, a Senate proposal aimed at accelerating the adoption of heat pumps that would save consumers money and boost domestic manufacturing.
May 3, 2022 Defense News
Watson Institute National Defense Fellow Lt Col Theodore J. Shanks and CSL Postdoctoral Fellow Alexander S. Gard-Murray co-authored an article for Defense News on how battlefield fuel shortages have stalled the Russian war machine and the implications for the US military.
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.
March 14, 2022
Jeff Colgan and co-author Miriam Hinthorn recently published a Climate Solutions White Paper on the threat of a full or partial cut-off of Russian natural gas to the European Union, countermeasures available, and the importance of transitioning to clean energy.
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.
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.
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.
October 19, 2021
Jeff Colgan and co-author Miriam Hinthorn (Brown University) recently published a piece in Energy Research and Social Science on the relationship between fuel prices and the global obesity epidemic using data spanning 145 countries between 1998 and 2016.
August 9, 2021
Climate Solutions Lab affiliate Jan Stockbruegger recently wrote a White Paper focusing on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and it’s role in climate change.
July 29, 2021
Jeff Colgan recently authored, "Climate Change, Grand Strategy, and International Order" a piece in which he identifies three different ways that various analysts of strategy and order think about climate change.
June 21, 2021
Jeff Colgan recently published, "Climate and Energy in the Transatlantic Relationship" - a piece examining the relationship between climate change and changes in the transatlantic political landscape.
June 3, 2021
Jeff D. Colgan and co-authors Thomas N. Hale (University of Oxford) and Scott M. Moore (University of Pennsylvania) recently published, "Biden's Climate Report Card: 4 A's, 2 B's, 3 Incompletes," in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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.
April 27, 2021
Jeff D. Colgan and co-authors Thomas N. Hale (University of Oxford) and Scott M. Moore (University of Pennsylvania) recently published "Biden @ 100 DAYS: A Climate Foreign-Policy Scorecard," which examines the current administration's actions and commitment to reorienting U.S. foreign policy to meet the climate challenge.
January 6, 2021
Jeff D. Colgan and Jan B. Stockbruegger co-wrote a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics entitled, "Energy and International Conflict" which reviews the ways in which energy has contributed to modern international wars and conflicts.
June 30, 2020
In June 2020 Jeff Colgan co-wrote, "Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change," a piece focused on a dynamic theory of climate politics based on the present and future revaluation of assets that accelerate climate change, such as fossil fuel plants.
June 2, 2020
In June 2020, Deborah Gordon co-wrote, "Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential," a study focused on assessing the lifecycle climate impacts of the oil and gas sector and reducing emissions in line with international climate targets.
November 6, 2019
A new report co-authored by Deborah Gordon underscores the need to more accurately map, measure, and manage methane.