A new generation of environmental assessment and forecasting tools has begun to emerge, replacing the sensational Malthusian gloom-and-doom reports of the 1970s that were mostly proven wrong. Panelists at this event will examine several of these efforts, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, the State of...

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems analyzes environmental trends, provides a check-up on environmental conditions and identifies problems in assessing environmental trends.

Samuel Thernstrom believes geoengineering may have an important role to play, both practically and conceptually, in the climate challenge process.

The UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment inclusion of human resiliency and adaption suggests that it may represent a turning point from old-style Malthusian fatalism on the environment.

Rumor has it that the Bush administration is considering a new policy that will "change the whole nature of the discussion" regarding energy and climate policy.

Although it creates only a slight reduction in the amount of solar energy absorbed by the Earth, solar radiation management should be a part of U.S. climate policy.

Theidea of sustainable development has been around for nearly two decades, but its vagueness has kept it from being a useable guide for policy.