Rutgers University – New Brunswick will soon serve as a locus for scholarship on climate change, renewable energy production, energy conservation and their environmental dimensions, according to a recent announcement from the Middlesex County institution’s leaders....
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The economics, politics, and science of climate change
Discussing the social cost of carbon, how quantifying the costs affect policy decisions impacting the climate, and the evolution of the climate community in realizing that combating climate change required a closer understanding of broader political concerns.
Envisioning Rutgers’ Climate Future: A Two-Night Town Hall Event
Bloustein faculty Clinton Andrews (Energy/ Buildings Working Group) and Robert Noland (Transportation Working Group)
will participate.
New Jersey not on target to reach greenhouse gas goal by 2050
But it stops short of making specific recommendations while examining a range of policies that other states are trying in an effort to reduce their carbon footprints, as well as many strategies frequently debated among New Jersey policymakers. “The good news in New...
Report Outlines Pathways to Greenhouse Gas Cuts in New Jersey
New Jersey has met its near-term requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, but reaching its 2050 goal will require much deeper reductions to meet this goal, according to a report released today by researchers at the Rutgers Climate...
The Climate March could be the Occupy Movement’s most noble progeny: Opinion
Given the growing challenges to life on this planet and the concomitant need for policy change and political courage – notably from climate change deniers, whether they are governed by profit or political cowardice -- one yearns for leadership. It’s wanting. But is it...
EJB, Rutgers Climate Institute to host conference on Climate Change Policy in New Jersey, September 27
The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, with support from the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy will host a conference, "Climate Change Policy in New Jersey: Advancing Opportunities to Make New Jersey Safer,...
Update to New Jersey's Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Researchers at the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Bloustein School have issued updates to New Jersey's estimated total greenhouse gas emissions as reported in New Jersey's Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, last issued in 2012 for year 2009. This update,...
NJ on Track to Meet 2020 Pollution Target — 2050 Goals More Problematic
The state is on a path to meet its goals to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution by 2020, but achieving its ambitious 2050 targets will take much more work, according to an updated inventory of those emissions by the Rutgers Climate Institute and Rutgers Edward J....
EJB Humphrey Fellow alum finds home-country connections in U.S.
When 2005-2006 Humphrey Fellow Orlando Acosta (Rutgers University – Natural Resources, Environmental Policy, and Climate Change) learned that he would be attending a pre-academic English training at the University of Oregon, he sought to learn more about the state’s...
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