The development of climate policy in the United States mirrors international developments, with efforts to initiate a coordinated approach giving way to jurisdictions separately taking actions. The centerpiece of US policy is regulation in the electricity sector that identifies a carbon emissions rate standard (intensity standard) for each state but leaves to states the design of policies, incl...

This paper addresses the probable levels of investment needed in new technologies for energy conversion and storage that are essential to address climate change, drawing on past evidence on the rate of cost improvements in energy technologies. A range of energy materials and technologies with lower carbon emissions over their life cycle are being developed, including fuel cells (FCs), hydrogen ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.05.009 0003-3472/© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevie ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n While most current predictive models agree that the climate is changing, it is not yet clear what impact these changes will have on animal populations. It is vital to determine the potential consequences in order to develop future management a...

This paper reassesses the burden of the current U.S. international tax regime and reconsiders well-known welfare benchmarks used to guide international tax reform. Reinventing corporate tax policy requires that international considerations be placed front and center in the debate on how to tax corporate income. A simple framework for assessing current rules suggests a U.S. tax burden on foreign...

This paper uses data from rural surveys in Nicaragua and Sri Lanka that are specially designed to measure the many facets of the investment climate and their effect on enterprise performance and entrepreneurship selection. In regard to entrepreneurship selection, in Nicaragua, household characteristics are more important than investment climate features; in Sri Lanka, both factors are roughly e...

Measurement of trace chemical impurities in ice cores contributes to the reconstruction of records of the atmospheric environment and of the climate system. Ion chromatography (IC) is an effective analytical technique for ionic species in ice cores but has been used on discretely prepared ice samples, resulting in extensive and slow sample preparation and potential for contamination. A new tech...

(*See endnotes for complete contributor biographies.) Virtually all aspects of economic activity–individual consumption, business investment, and government spending–affect greenhouse gas emissions and, hence, the global climate. An effective climate change policy would change the decision calculus for these activities to promote more ef1⁄2cient generation and use of energy, lower carbon-intens...