Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
The Europe Center
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford Center at Peking UniversityOctober 26th, 2009
China Dialogue features PESD research on China CCS
in the news: China Dialogue on October 23, 2009PESD's Research Associate, Gang He, discusses the energy dilemma of doing CCS in China and sets out his technical and policy recommendations for China's adoption of this important technology. 
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September 8th, 2009
The Boston Review releases Victor and Morse's "Living With Coal"
Op-ed: The Boston Review on September 9, 2009David Victor and Richard Morse explain why coal, the world's fastest growing fossil fuel and leading source of greenhouse gas emissions, is here to stay and how climate policy can tackle this problem. Their piece is also featured in Engineering World's October/November 2009 issue.
August 11th, 2009
PESD CCS research quoted in The Washington Post
in the news: The Washington Post on August 11, 2009A Washington Post article on 11 August 2009 titled "Coal's Future Wagered on Carbon Capture" by Steven Mufson quoted PESD research on the economics and scale of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The article discusses the need for CCS at scale, and also highlights the technological and cost challenges of CCS. Read more »
March 27th, 2009
Foreign Affairs hosts David Victor for online Q&A on climate change
David Victor takes questions on the subject of climate change and what governments, businesses and scientists can do about it. Read more »
March 19th, 2009
Has the time come for climate engineering?
David Victor and several co-authors write in the current issue of Foreign Affairs about the controversial topic of climate engineering, a strategy for addressing the earth's warming climate.
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February 26th, 2009
The geoengineering option
David Victor writes, in this recent journal article for Foreign Affairs, that as climate change accelerates, policymakers may have to consider "geoengineering" as an emergency strategy to cool the planet. Engineering the climate strikes most as a bad idea, but it is time to start taking it seriously.
February 3rd, 2009
PESD releases new working paper on challenges to deployment of carbon capture and storage technology
PESD researchers Varun Rai, David Victor, and Mark Thurber find that the conventional wisdom used for deployment and diffusion of technologies is not applicable when thinking about deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
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