Climate Change

Former US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz speaks with Susan Tierney at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.

The White House can learn a lot from these GOP governors.

Scientists and policymakers around the world agree that in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, global warming must be kept t

When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government took over in late 2015, he had a mandate to act on climate change. In the US meanwhile, little movement has happened on a carbon price.

The purpose of the North American Carbon Price Roundtable, co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and the Partnership for Responsible Growth, and

With the UN Climate Change Conference currently underway in Paris, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank Group’s special envoy for climate change, and Larry Brilliant, chairman of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, explain how global warming affects us all—and why now is the time to take action.

The trip by President Barack Obama this week to Arctic Alaska has focused needed attention on the effects of climate change. In no other state are the effects of climate change more visible. The Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program in January 2011 issued recommendations on the level of international cooperation and stewardship necessary to manage the Arctic marine environment in anticipation of the climate change impacts the region now faces.

As momentum builds around the movement to divest from fossil fuels, it is likely investors will soon to be talking about carbon bubbles and investment strategies to come out on the right side of climate change, especially in new growth markets.

On March 28, the White House released the Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions in response to President Barack Obama’s call for action on climate change. Included in the Administration’s new methane strategy is the work of 2009 Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow and 2013 Aspen Action Forum participant Erin Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is the senior vice president of sustainability for the Innovation Center for US Dairy. She has been a driving force behind the organization’s industry-wide effort to engage the value-chain and create a more sustainable dairy industry while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks in part to Fitzgerald’s leadership, the dairy industry voluntarily has made a commitment to reduce emissions 25 percent by 2020 domestically.