The IPCC released the Working Group III summary report for policymakers on Sunday. I wrote about the Working Group II report on impacts on The Monkey Cage. Working Group III covers climate mitigation, that is the challenges of reducing greenhouse gases. Tonight, I read through the report and tweeted my sense of the main… read more
Can China Get a Handle on Pollution? What Does that Mean for Climate Change?
In the northern city of Harbin, China, air quality was so bad ten days ago that concentrations of particulate matter reportedly reached 1000 micrograms per cubic meter at their peak, exceeding the World Health Organization’s daily safe levels by a factor of 40 and shrouding the city in a fog so dense… read more
Welcome to the Blog
The aim of this blog is to present the interim research from a policy research project , a signature year-long course in the Master’s in Global Policy Studies program from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Contributors will include the 18 graduate students in the class, along with the Professor… read more