Environment

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An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle after it was cleared by farmers in Itaituba, Para, Brazil September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Policy Brief

The Amazon Is a Carbon Bomb: How Can Brazil and the World Work Together to Avoid Setting It Off?

Monica de Bolle (PIIE)
October 2019
A flexible solar panel is seen at Eni’s Renewable Energy and Environmental Research & Development Center in Novara, Italy, September 26, 2019. Picture taken September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

A Credible Decarbonization Agenda Can Help Strengthen Europe's Economy

Jean Pisani-Ferry (PIIE)
December 9, 2019
The Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery owned by The Carlyle Group is seen at sunset in front of the Philadelphia skyline March 24, 2014.
REUTERS/David M. Parrott/File Photo
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

A Carbon Tax for the United States?

Monica de Bolle (PIIE)
September 30, 2019
A specialized agent of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, patrols in the national parks near Novo Progresso, southeast of Para state, Brazil, November 4, 2018.
REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Let's Look at the Evidence on Tipping Points in the Amazon Rainforest

Monica de Bolle (PIIE)
October 31, 2019
A protester holds a banner during a demonstration at the Bank of England in the City of London, Britain October 14, 2019.
REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Working Paper

Should Monetary Policy Take Inequality and Climate Change into Account?

Patrick Honohan (PIIE)
October 2019

Recent Content

Past Event

A trade and environment negotiations agenda in the WTO: Part 2

Anabel González (PIIE), James Bacchus (Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity, University of Central Florida) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

April 7, 2021
Past Event

Economic Impact of Climate Change

Emma Howard Boyd (Environment Agency, United Kingdom), Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE), Kevin J. Stiroh (Federal Reserve Board) and Robert M. Tichio (Riverstone Holdings LLC)

March 23, 2021
Past Event

What trade and environment negotiations agenda for the WTO?

Anabel González (PIIE), James Bacchus (Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity, University of Central Florida) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

March 17, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on how to reinvigorate US alliances

Marcus Noland (PIIE)

November 23, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

State Department has a crucial role in climate change and protecting the environment

Cullen S. Hendrix (PIIE)

October 20, 2020
Testimonies

The European Policy Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)

July 13, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

COVID-19 has not undermined the prospects for Europe’s Green Deal

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)

June 10, 2020
Past Event

The Way Forward: Our Green Future

Christiana Figueres (Global Optimism; former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Hal Harvey (Energy Innovation), Ernest Moniz (Nuclear Threat Initiative; former US Secretary of Energy) and Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland and Chair of The Elders)

May 14, 2020
Op-Eds

Building a Post-Pandemic World Will Not Be Easy

Jean Pisani-Ferry (PIIE)

April 30, 2020
via Project Syndicate
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Europe should seize oil price windfall to fund its pandemic response

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)

April 2, 2020