The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than $90 billion in strategic clean energy investments intended to promote job creation and deployment of low-carbon technologies. In terms of spending, the clean energy package has been described as the nation's "biggest energy bill in...

Carbon pricing is a broad term that encompasses two policy approaches: emissions trading and carbon taxation. Emissions trading places a cap on the aggregate emission level and allows the market to determine the price, whereas carbon taxation sets the price and allows the market to determine the...

The US government recently developed a range of values representing the monetized global damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon (SCC). These values are currently used in benefit--cost analyses to assess...

Effective policies to halt deforestation depend critically on the forest context. This article uses a forest transition framework to discuss three forest contexts: remote (core) forest areas, frontier forests, and forest-agriculture mosaics. Just as the drivers and capabilities differ across...

Both theory and evidence regarding forest-relevant decisions by various agents suggest that there are significant constraints on the effectiveness of domestic policies for REDD (i.e., in facilitating a reduction in emissions from deforestation and forest degradation). Economic theory and...

As part of its efforts to pursue a low-carbon growth path, India has made a commitment to increase the use of clean energy in electricity generation. This article examines the evolution of India's renewable energy policy as a way to address the twin goals of reducing energy poverty and...