Tag: Environment & Sustainability

100 Articles

Dialogues

Catherine Novelli on Responsible Energy Policy

How do you think the current administration’s energy policy affects the US’s relationships abroad? CN: Well, we’ve always been a leader in energy, and now we are a net…

November 27, 2018

Dialogues

Ned Price on the Future of U.S. National Security

GJIA: What changes in the organizational structure or mission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did you experience during your time there? NP: I joined the agency in…

November 20, 2018

Global Governance

How Renewable Energy Could Fuel Future Conflicts

In the past, fossil fuels were the primary link between energy and conflict, as control and transport of oil and gas drove political unrest, wars over territory, and…

October 8, 2018

Dialogues

Costa Rica: Towards a Sustainable Future with Román Macaya Hayes

GJIA: What are some significant ways in which Costa Rica has changed in the past decade? RMH: To begin with, we have accelerated our economic transformation to an economy in…

March 16, 2018

Human Rights & Development

Re-imagining Water (and Energy) Sharing in South Asia

Water security has enormous consequences for agricultural productivity and food security in the region. To illustrate, India and Pakistan have over 80 million hectares combined…

February 27, 2018

Online Archive

Coal Mining in China: The Social Costs

China’s coal industry has been central to its economic success ever since 1949. It has been the predominant supplier of energy to the economy and, especially since the 1980s,…

May 16, 2013

Online Archive

Challenges and Opportunities: Aviation Emissions and the European Cap & Trade System

On January 1, 2012, the European Union extended its cap and trade system, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), to include CO2 emissions from all airlines arriving in and departing…

May 16, 2013

Online Archive

Introduction by Paul Sullivan

Joshua Meltzer could start the discussion from his paper on “Capping CO2 Emissions from Aviation under the European Cap and Trade System.” The EU has tried to make its…

May 16, 2013

Online Archive

Climate Change, Conflict, and Human Rights: Nexus or Nonissue?

I.  The Science of Global Climate Change Global Warming Earth’s average temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years.[i]  Twenty of the warmest…

February 27, 2013

Online Archive

Salinity Issues in Bangladesh

Supporting 156,000,000 people is a difficult task, and with a population density of almost 3,000 people per square mile, and 40% of its population living below the poverty line,…

October 24, 2011