The United States should consider exchanging the current federal gas tax for a 6 percent oil-security fee to fully fund the country's national infrastructure program.
With aviation emissions predicted to grow 300 to 400 percent between 2005 to 2050, the outcry over the EU’s new aviation policy feeds into the larger debate between trade interests and climate change initiatives.
The UN secretary-general’s new five-year action agenda identifies sustainable transport as critical to sustainable development. Yet transport is virtually invisible in the initial framing of the June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.
Beijing needs to resolve a number of fundamental nuclear safety deficiencies before China increases its nuclear capacity.
The real issue behind the Keystone XL pipeline debate is how to manage the climate effects of the shift from conventional oils to unconventional oils.
Developing countries must not wait as long as advanced countries did to address the environmental effects of rapid economic growth. Market signals can help curtail environmental damage at minimum cost to growth.
Fukushima serves as an important case study to understand how far nuclear safety can be improved and illustrates how important it is that these improvements are made if nuclear power is to become socially acceptable.
The impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on the global nuclear energy industry can clearly be seen one year later. Countries around the world with civilian nuclear programs have all learned lessons from the Fukushima disaster, most importantly that international best practices must be adhered to if countries wish to minimize the risk of such disasters in the future.
The nature of the climate challenge in the immediate future will be determined by China and the world’s largest carbon emitters—not U.N. summits.
Several factors could be contributing to China’s sudden entrance into coal import markets, including transportation bottlenecks, environmental and safety considerations, economic factors, and concerns about depleting coking coal reserves.