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How to enable public policy climate solutions

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing carbon sinks, and promoting adaptation to a changing climate, solutions abound. Implementing these solutions through policy, however, is anything but simple.

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Meet the net zero leaders 2025

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that ignoring carbon emissions would incur costs bigger than the great financial crisis housing crisis, and dot-com crisis.”

Corporate America owes the rest of us $87 trillion

Researchers from the Wharton School estimate that the social cost of the carbon emissions of U.S. companies will amount to $87 trillion through 2050.

Penn students riding bikes over a bridge in Amsterdam.

Turning bicycles into an engineering study tool

Penn students explore the Netherlands’ cycling infrastructure and learn about bicycle design principles in Dustyn Roberts’ popular Penn Global Seminar.

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HHS cuts could put families at risk when weather heats up

Sanya Carley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design comments on federal assistance with household energy bills.

Del. Gov. Matt Meyer searches for a new Public Advocate in the face of anger over skyrocketing utility bills

Shelley Welton of Penn Carey Law and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design discusses the economic link between cold temperatures and increased energy bills.

People walking in a city scape with digital data atmospherically surrounding them.

‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into transformative innovations and their effect on the populations they reach.

In a reversal, plans for U.S. natural gas power grow, complicating progress on climate

John Quigley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that the construction of every new natural gas plant is a setback for climate goals.

EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the latest form of climate denial is to pretend climate change isn’t a threat rather than denying that it’s happening.

California’s controversial new fuel rules rejected by state legal office

A report by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design predicted that fuel standard changes in California could increase the cost of gas by 85 cents a gallon through 2030.

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