http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from PESDen-usPublic domainhttp://pesd.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/60http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2162PESD researchers Tom Heller and Gang He contribute to a new report on US China CCS Collaboration]]>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2162?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2161In a new article in the Fall 2009 issue of the Harvard International Review PESD research fellow Varun Rai discusses the critical elements of effective international carbon offsets markets. The article argues that fundamental problems of perverse incentives and huge transaction costs render the clean development mechanism (CDM) unfit as the backbone of international carbon offsets markets post-2012. Instead, the article emphasizes the need for multilateral deals around large sectors that leverage synergies between climate change benefits and the core interests of developing countries.]]>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2161?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2129PESD'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.]]>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2129?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2116Jeremy Carl and Richard Morse explore a set of major catalysts that are about to dramatically change how the world trades and consumes coal.]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2116?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2120Xander Slaski and Mark Thurber introduce a framework for understanding why the poor often fail to adopt seemingly beneficial technologies like improved biomass cookstoves.]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2120?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2100Science Magazine's special CCS issue features PESD researcher Richard Morse, who discusses the state of CCS in China.]]>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2100?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2085While the Treasury Department goes on the offensive against media reports of cap-and-trade costs, Michael Wara testified in a Senate hearing that the House climate bill would more than pay for itself.]]>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2085?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2088David Luhnow of The Wall Street Journal quotes PESD assistant director Mark Thurber on the failure of Mexican politicians to engage the crisis presented by the stunning decline of the country's principal oil field.]]>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2088?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2074David 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.]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2074?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2075Point Carbon reports on PESD's discussion of the potential role carbon markets might play in paying for CCS in China.]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2075?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2070The WSJ calls PESD's new China CCS paper, %publication1%, "fascinating" and considers its analysis of the obstacles for deploying CCS in China.]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2070?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2069Bloomberg discusses PESD's "The Real Drivers of Carbon Capture and Storage in China and Implications for Climate Policy" and how its conclusions impact the debate ahead of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2069?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2054PESD affiliated faculty Michael Wara's assessment of the popular "cash for clunkers" program is cited in The New York Times. While the government’s cash payments for replacing old cars with more fuel efficient new ones may have value as an economic stimulus, Wara calculates that they are an expensive way to fight climate change, at an estimated $200-400 per ton of avoided carbon dioxide emissions.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2054?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2052In a paper released in the 1 August 2009 issue of the Economic and Political Weekly Varun Rai and David Victor outline a strategy to inform which efforts in India offer the most leverage on emissions warming gases and which are most credible because they align with India’s own interests.]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2052?http://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2057In 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.]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://pesd.stanford.edu/news/2057?