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Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
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Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
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Center for Innovation in Global Health
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December 13th, 2010
Nolan and Thurber identify risk as a major driver of whether countries use private or state-owned oil companies
In a new working paper, PESD affiliate Peter A. Nolan and associate director Mark Thurber find that considerations of risk help explain why oil-rich states may choose international oil companies rather than state-controlled enterprises to find and extract oil in "frontier" territories. 
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October 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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August 15th, 2009
PESD releases new working paper on "finesse" and "game-changer" strategies for advancing carbon capture and storage
in the newsIn a new PESD working paper, Robert A. James of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP classifies frontier project development strategies into "finesses" and "game-changers." James then considers the implications of this framework for the case of carbon capture and storage (CCS), where numerous legal, business and technological barriers seem to stand in the way of wide technology deployment.
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June 22nd, 2009
David Victor on the need for more research and international protocols governing geo-engineering
in the news: Atlantic MonthlyAs the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical and possibly extremely dangerous schemes for re-engineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that's the scariest part. Read more »
August 27th, 2007
PESD associate reports to Boston Globe on unclean oil alternatives
in the news: Boston Globe on August 19, 2007Mike Jackson suggests carbon policies to guide energy projects towards cleaner technologies at times of high oil prices Read more »
June 21st, 2007
BP Foundation awards $7.5 million to Stanford for research on energy markets
The BP Foundation has awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development to support research on modern energy markets. The foundation is funded by BP, one of the world's largest energy companies. Read more »
April 6th, 2006
PESD Director Victor quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education Kyoto critique
in the news: The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 31, 2006An international climate regime should evolve slowly, in piecemeal fashion, just as the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade did, argues Dr. Victor. "I have come to be even more aware of the fragmented, bottom-up nature of these kinds of systems," he says. Read more »
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