Can international regimes be effective means to restrain carbon emissions?

AEI's annual Earth Day checkup will celebrate the 10th edition of the PRI/AEI Index of Leading Environmental Indicators and feature analysis of recent trends and developments in the environment by AEI's entire "green team" of scholars and fellows who work in the field. The Index examines government data on numerous...

Climate policy should focus on human welfare, not just reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

The greatest danger associated with these loan guarantees for nuclear power plants is not environmental but financial.

For more than twenty years, policymakers have struggled to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to stop global climate change. Congress is likely to enact federal climate legislation in 2009, but many scientists fear that emissions reductions may not occur quickly enough to prevent significant warming. Some scientists...

The consequences of global warming are hard to predict, but geoengineering might well be the only feasible solution if they prove to be serious.

As the House plans to vote on the legislation, AEI energy and environmental scholars find many problematic elements within the proposed bill, and all note that this legislation consists, at its core, of a cap and trade program for greenhouse gases.

AEI scholars' recent research on climate change and its policy effects.