Nature
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Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
Nature Climate Change Perspective
Declining crop yields limit the potential of bioenergy
Global-warming projections that rely on bioenergy strategies to offset carbon dioxide emissions could be unduly optimistic, according to a study that accounts for how climate change affects crop yields.
Improving the social cost of nitrous oxide
The social cost of nitrous oxide does not account for stratospheric ozone depletion. Doing so could increase its value by 20%. Links between nitrous oxide and other nitrogen pollution impacts could make mitigation even more compelling.
Nature: "How climate coverage can drive change"
By Anna Nowogrodzki
Recalculate the social cost of carbon
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon
Advice to the Biden administration as it seeks to account for mounting losses from storms, wildfires and other climate impacts.
Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely
A simple model of climate negotiations shows how the mere threat of risky geoengineering might help induce a high-mitigation agreement.
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet. What can social scientists contribute to this conversation?
Policy sequencing toward decarbonization
Economics 101 says price carbon. Economics 102 says subsidize R&D. Political Economy 101 points to policies that support clean technology deployment.
Solar geoengineering reduces atmospheric carbon burden
By David W. Keith, Gernot Wagner and Claire L. Zabel
Push renewables to spur carbon pricing
Make wind and solar power even cheaper by opening up access to the electricity grid and ending fossil-fuel subsidies.
A balance of bottom-up and top-down in linking climate policies
Neither extreme is desirable.
The rebound effect is overplayed
Increasing energy efficiency brings emissions savings.
