Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy

Linking climate policies to advance global mitigation.

T he November 2017 negotiations in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) validated that the Paris Agreement has met one of two necessary conditions for success. By achieving broad participation, including 195 countries, accounting for 99% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (1), the agreement dramatically improves on the 14%...

A new strategy for global climate protection

This essay proposes an innovative institutional strategy for global climate protection, quite distinct from but ultimately complementary to the UNFCCC climate treaty negotiations. Our “building block” strategy relies on a variety of smaller-scale transnational cooperative arrangements, involving not only states, but also subnational jurisdictions, firms, and civil society organizations, to unde...

Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture

U.S. ClImATE mITIGATION IN THE CONTExT OF GlOBAl STABIlIzATION

SUMMARy This issue brief examines recent studies of long-term scenarios for stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to understand whether and how near-term U.S. climate policy can translate into environmentally significant climate outcomes. Specifically, the focus is on modeling analyses that have attempted to quantify the emissions reductions necessary to achieve a de...

Towards a Global Scale Semantic Web

By transforming the Web from a collection of documents to a collection of semantically rich data sources, the Semantic Web promises an unprecedented benefit of a global knowledge infrastructure. My PhD research will try to help make that happen at a global scale by doing the following proposed work: 1. Design and implement a highly scalable Semantic Web knowledge base system by exploiting moder...