I have a new paper Nature Climate Change,
“Future-making beyond (Im)mobility through tethered reilience,”
led by Bishawjit Mallick,
that introduces a concept of tethered resilience, related to people’s
attachment to their native communities and place, and argues that this
concept provides new and useful ways to think about connections among
climate change, migration, and adaptation.
I have a new paper,
with Kelsea Best and
Bishawjit Mallick,
in which we used pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to study
environmentally-driven migration in rural Bangladesh and found that
economic inequality in rural villages plays a crucial role.
I have a new paper, led by Jess Raff,
that analyzes sediment transport and sediment budgets
in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, and assesses the implications of
sediment flow for sustainability in the face of sea-level rise and the
diversion and damming of major rivers.
I was quoted in a story at the Tennessean about the unusually warm and wet winter in 2018–19:
“Winters have gotten so warm in the last 20 or so years that people forget.
Weather that wouldn’t have been remarkably cold 30 or 40 years ago seems
extraordinarily cold today.”
I was interviewed by the Dhaka Tribune on the impact of sea-level rise in
Bangladesh. I explained that with good land-management, sediment carried to
the coast by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers can raising the land
as fast as the sea is rising for the near-future, but that eventually
global warming may cause the sea level to rise faster than the land can
adapt.
Michael Vandenbergh and I were interviewed by Aaron J. Freiwald for the
Good Law/Bad Law podcast. We discussed our recent book and the role of the
private sector in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Michael Vandenbergh and I participated in a webinar hosted by the
Environmental Law Institute on our book,
Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change.
Cassie Phillips (director of the Private Environmental Governance
Initiative at ELI) moderated.
Stephen Harper (Global Director of Environment and Energy Policy at
Intel) and Jackie Roberts (Chief Sustainability Officer at the Carlisle
Group) provided private industry perspectives.
I have a new paper in the journal
Energy Efficiency, co-authored with Alex Maki, Emmett McKinney,
Mike Vandenbergh, and Mark Cohen,
about employers who offer employee benefits to promote energy efficiency.
For people working to address climate change, there is certainly no viable alternative to reading this book.
Beyond Politics presses readers to think beyond their current conception of climate change solutions and, while
laying out a reasoned private governance response accompanied by a realistic assessment of its limitations, provides
the groundwork for future research and initiatives to reduce emissions.
With President Trump’s announcement to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, many other countries around the world—and cities and states within the U.S.—are stepping up their commitments to address climate change.
But one thing is clear: Even if all the remaining participating nations do their part, governments alone can’t substantially reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change.