AMHERST, MA, January 18, 2016 – Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released a new edition of the Greenhouse 100 index, ranking U.S. industrial polluters on the basis of their...
Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released a new edition of the Greenhouse 100 index, ranking U.S. industrial polluters on the basis of their emissions of the gases...
advance that there are ways to tame global warming and make a successful transition to a sustainable future based on clean energy systems (which do not include nuclear power plants or so-called negative emission technologies).They agree that, in large...
PERI researchers led by Michael Ash and James Boyce have produced updated versions of the Greenhouse 100 and Toxic 100 Indexes. The Greenhouse 100 ranks U.S. corporations by their emissions responsible for global climate change. The Toxic 100 ranks...
Four Recent Books WATCH WEBCAST Friday, Dec. 6: 9:30am-1:00pm LBJ Washington Center Washington, DC Shouvik Chakraborty: Clean Energy Markets "Facing the Future: Historical Perspectives on a Green New Deal" Tuesday, Dec. 3: 5:30pm Integrated Learning...
>> View Toxic 100 Indexes New report also examines corporations’ environmental justice performance AMHERST, MA - Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today published new editions of...
interview, Heidi Garrett-Peltier discusses how federal spending on domestic programs such as healthcare, education, and clean energy creates far more jobs than military spending. >> Watch Interview
>> Listen to interview In a radio interview with Sustainable East End on WPKN, PERI's Robert Pollin discusses his study "Clean Energy Investments for New York State." He addresses how to implement the proposed Climate and Community Protection and...
with C.J. Polychroniou, PERI's Robert Pollin talks about how states can take crucial, proactive steps to build a clean energy future by curbing carbon emissions and creating a just transition for fossil fuel workers.
the Center for American Progress and released by a coalition of labor and environmental groups. Focusing on a short-term clean energy and jobs program, Green Recovery reports that a short-term green stimulus package would create two million jobs...
Working Paper
,
Aug, 2008
Heidi Garrett-Peltier,
Robert Pollin,
James Heintz,
Helen Scharber
>> Read article published in Nature Energy journal >> Read The Guardian press article >> Read UMass Amherst summary Abstract A key aim of climate policy is to progressively substitute renewables and energy efficiency for fossil fuel use. The associated...
Journal Article
,
Nov, 2021
Jean-Francois Mercure,
Pablo Salas,
Pim Vercoulen,
Gregor Semieniuk,
Aileen Lam,
Hector Pollitt,
Philip B. Holden,
Negar Vakilifard,
Unnada Chewpreecha,
Neil R. Edwards,
Jorge E. Vinuales
Abstract The world is not on track to achieve climate stabilization: a global mean temperature between 1.50C to 20C above pre-industrial levels no later than 2100—the goal of the Paris Agreement. The paper illustrates the opportunities and challenges...
manufacturing sector? Can we accomplish these various tasks while also rebuilding the economy on a new foundation of clean energy as opposed to fossil fuel energy sources? Are all of these projects also compatible with expanding decent job opportunities...
Watson Institute, Heidi Garrett-Peltier finds that federal spending on domestic programs in health care, education, clean energy and infrastructure creates more jobs, dollar for dollar, than military spending. The report documents how many jobs are...
Wisconsin, radio station WORT. The study finds that federal spending on domestic programs in health care, education, clean energy and infrastructure creates more jobs, dollar for dollar, than military spending. >> Listen to interview
Shouvik Chakraborty Assistant Research Professor Shouvik Chakraborty received his PhD in economics on the topic “Movements in the Terms of Trade of Primary Commodities vis-à-vis Manufactured Goods: A Theoretical and Empirical Study” from the Centre for...
Abstract In this paper, we propose a carbon tax policy for Delhi, the most polluted capital in the world, which will fundamentally change the energy mix of Delhi's economy toward clean, green energy and will guarantee universal access to electricity,...
funds for unemployment insurance; and continue support for long-term investments in traditional infrastructure and clean energy. But such fiscal policies also need to combine with credit-market measures that are capable of ‘pulling on a string’—i.e....
17 percent of job losses through fossil fuel industry cutbacks, we propose reemployment guarantees in the growing clean energy industries for displaced workers. As part of this job guarantee program, we estimate the costs of three provisions for the...
Greenhouse 100 Names Top Climate Polluters
AMHERST, MA, January 18, 2016 – Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released a new edition of the Greenhouse 100 index, ranking U.S. industrial polluters on the basis of their...
Greenhouse 100 Names Top Climate Polluters
Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released a new edition of the Greenhouse 100 index, ranking U.S. industrial polluters on the basis of their emissions of the gases...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Humanity’s Fate Isn’t Sealed — If We Act Now
advance that there are ways to tame global warming and make a successful transition to a sustainable future based on clean energy systems (which do not include nuclear power plants or so-called negative emission technologies).They agree that, in large...
Environmental and Energy Economics (2)
Toxic 100 Names Top Climate, Air, and Water Polluters-2020
PERI researchers led by Michael Ash and James Boyce have produced updated versions of the Greenhouse 100 and Toxic 100 Indexes. The Greenhouse 100 ranks U.S. corporations by their emissions responsible for global climate change. The Toxic 100 ranks...
Events
Four Recent Books WATCH WEBCAST Friday, Dec. 6: 9:30am-1:00pm LBJ Washington Center Washington, DC Shouvik Chakraborty: Clean Energy Markets "Facing the Future: Historical Perspectives on a Green New Deal" Tuesday, Dec. 3: 5:30pm Integrated Learning...
Toxic 100 Lists Top Climate, Air, and Water Polluters
>> View Toxic 100 Indexes New report also examines corporations’ environmental justice performance AMHERST, MA - Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today published new editions of...
Military Spending Ineffective for Creating Jobs
interview, Heidi Garrett-Peltier discusses how federal spending on domestic programs such as healthcare, education, and clean energy creates far more jobs than military spending. >> Watch Interview
A Green New Deal for New York State
>> Listen to interview In a radio interview with Sustainable East End on WPKN, PERI's Robert Pollin discusses his study "Clean Energy Investments for New York State." He addresses how to implement the proposed Climate and Community Protection and...
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Is Possible. These State-Level Plans Show How.
with C.J. Polychroniou, PERI's Robert Pollin talks about how states can take crucial, proactive steps to build a clean energy future by curbing carbon emissions and creating a just transition for fossil fuel workers.
Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs & Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
the Center for American Progress and released by a coalition of labor and environmental groups. Focusing on a short-term clean energy and jobs program, Green Recovery reports that a short-term green stimulus package would create two million jobs...
Reframing Incentives for Climate Policy Action
>> Read article published in Nature Energy journal >> Read The Guardian press article >> Read UMass Amherst summary Abstract A key aim of climate policy is to progressively substitute renewables and energy efficiency for fossil fuel use. The associated...
Global Green Growth for Human Development
Abstract The world is not on track to achieve climate stabilization: a global mean temperature between 1.50C to 20C above pre-industrial levels no later than 2100—the goal of the Paris Agreement. The paper illustrates the opportunities and challenges...
Reindustrializing America: A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs
manufacturing sector? Can we accomplish these various tasks while also rebuilding the economy on a new foundation of clean energy as opposed to fossil fuel energy sources? Are all of these projects also compatible with expanding decent job opportunities...
Job Opportunity Cost of War
Watson Institute, Heidi Garrett-Peltier finds that federal spending on domestic programs in health care, education, clean energy and infrastructure creates more jobs, dollar for dollar, than military spending. The report documents how many jobs are...
Job Opportunity Cost of War-Interview
Wisconsin, radio station WORT. The study finds that federal spending on domestic programs in health care, education, clean energy and infrastructure creates more jobs, dollar for dollar, than military spending. >> Listen to interview
Shouvik Chakraborty
Shouvik Chakraborty Assistant Research Professor Shouvik Chakraborty received his PhD in economics on the topic “Movements in the Terms of Trade of Primary Commodities vis-à-vis Manufactured Goods: A Theoretical and Empirical Study” from the Centre for...
Delhi Green Deal
Abstract In this paper, we propose a carbon tax policy for Delhi, the most polluted capital in the world, which will fundamentally change the energy mix of Delhi's economy toward clean, green energy and will guarantee universal access to electricity,...
Austerity is Not a Solution: Why the Deficit Hawks are Wrong
funds for unemployment insurance; and continue support for long-term investments in traditional infrastructure and clean energy. But such fiscal policies also need to combine with credit-market measures that are capable of ‘pulling on a string’—i.e....
The Economics of Just Transition: A Framework for Supporting Fossil Fuel-Dependent Workers and Communities in the United States
17 percent of job losses through fossil fuel industry cutbacks, we propose reemployment guarantees in the growing clean energy industries for displaced workers. As part of this job guarantee program, we estimate the costs of three provisions for the...
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