Podcasts about duke university's nicholas institute

Robert Bonnie from Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions joins us today on Farm. Food. Facts. He discusses his research which answers the question: is an urban/rural divide around the environment, and if so, what is it?

China is investing heavily in coal around the world, even going so far as to build the coal sector from scratch, in a variety of developing countries. Coal plants are either being planned or constructed in 14 countries that currently have no coal power to speak of. Plants are also being planned for 19 other countries, and those new coal plants would more than double each country’s existing coal-fired capacity. Guest, Jackson Ewing, of Duke University's Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions, explains. Subscribe to the Policy 360 podcast Read an episode transcript Read the op-ed Jackson Ewing wrote for The Hill Artwork: Melissa Carrico Music: Vittoro by Blue Dot Sessions / Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution

Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions hosted a webinar on its energy and economic modeling results of Clean Power Plan (CPP) compliance pathways. Nicholas Institute Senior Research Economist Martin Ross explained the Nicholas Institute's CPP modeling project and describe its in-house electricity dispatch model: the Dynamic Integrated Economy/Energy/Emissions Model. He also presented findings related to: tradeoffs between rate-based and mass-based compliance plans; impacts of state-by-state versus regional compliance approaches; key elements of the CPP affecting policy responses in the model; consequences of policy choices for generation options, operating costs, capital investments, fuel use, renewable energy, and other factors.

Brian Murray, director for economic analysis at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, discusses the significance of the locale of this year's Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from Doha.

Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the British Consulate General co-hosted a lecture featuring Woking, U.K. Chief Executive Ray Morgan. During the lecture, Morgan described his experiences implementing sustainability programs in Woking and shared the lessons he learned.

Linwood Pendleton, director of ocean and costal policy at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, presents on marine ecosystem service databases during a webinar hosted by the Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network.

Tim Profeta, director of Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, provides an update on where things stand with climate legislation before Congress, and introduces work by the Nicholas Institute on containing costs from climate legislation in this October 2009 lecture.