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Welcome to the Energy and Environment Policy Lab

Welcome to the Energy and Environment Policy Lab

Exploring policies and strategies for clean energy futures

Exploring policies and strategies for clean energy futures

Exploring policies and strategies for clean energy futures

Exploring policies and strategies for clean energy futures

Lab News

Taking Stock of the Implementation Gap in Climate Policy

Taking Stock of the Implementation Gap in Climate Policy

Journal article

A gap persists between the emissions reductions pledged by countries under the Paris Agreement and those resulting from their domestic policies. We argue that this gap in fact contains two parts: one in the policies that countries adopt, and the other in the outcomes that those policies achieve.

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Coalition Cascades: The Politics of Tipping Points in Clean Energy Transitions

Coalition Cascades: The Politics of Tipping Points in Clean Energy Transitions

Journal article

Policy change often involves multiple policy subsystems, as in the case of clean energy transitions. The article advances our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning trans-subsystem policy change, offering a model of the politics of tipping points.

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The Home State Effect: How Subnational Governments Shape Climate Coalitions

The Home State Effect: How Subnational Governments Shape Climate Coalitions

Journal article

Organized business interests often seek to block public interest regulations. But whether firms oppose regulation depends on institutional context. We argue that, in federal systems, sub-national policies and politics can have a home state effect on firms’ national policy preferences and the lobbying coalitions they join. 

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Political Strategies for Climate and Environmental Solutions

Political Strategies for Climate and Environmental Solutions

Journal article

Many of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. This Review illustrates how insight into politics can help policymakers craft strategies to address the ambition gap, the implementation gap and the international action gap.

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  • Rausser College of Natural Resources
  • Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
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