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The Global Economic Impacts of Climate Change

November 2015

This research brief is based on a paper from the journal Nature, published on-line on October 21, 2015, entitled “Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production.” The paper, led by...

Climate Change Impact on Agriculture: Implications for Food Security and Hunger

June 2015

David Lobell’s recent research indicates that negative impacts to the global agriculture system are much more likely, more severe and wider-ranging in the face of human-caused climate change....

Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis

November 2012

Author(s): 
Thomas Fingar, David Lobell
SummaryClimate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly.

Climate Change and Conflict: Identifying the mechanisms

December 2011

Author(s): 
Kaitlin Shilling
Climate change will lead to massive conflicts, according to claims of such prominent sources as Sir Nicholas Stern and the US National Security Agency - claims repeated by the media.

Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics

October 2011

Author(s): 
Charles Perrow
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.

Debt Default Exceptionally Un-American

July 2011

Author(s): 
Nina Hachigian
Conservatives Would Turn Our History and Our Future on Its Head ---- We cannot know exactly how disastrous the failure of Congress to increase the debt ceiling would be to the global financial...

Climate trend and global crop production since 1980

May 2011

Author(s): 
David Lobell, Wolfram Schlenker, Justin Costa-Roberts
One way of understanding how climate change is likely to affect global food production and food security is to better understand the recent past.

ESI Bulletin: The Real Drivers of Carbon Capture and Storage in China

November 2010

Author(s): 
Richard K. Morse, Varun Rai, Gang He
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is now widely viewed as imperative for global climate stabilisation.

Climate Change and China's Agricultural Sector: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation

May 2010

Author(s): 
Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
Although China and the United States are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China’s emissions on a per capita basis are significantly lower than those of the U.S.: in 2005, per capita...

Living With Coal: Climate Policy's Most Inconvenient Truth

September 2009

Author(s): 
David G. Victor, Richard K. Morse

Environment Gridlock

February 2009

Author(s): 
David G. Victor
One effect of the new Obama administration's global charm is that America could be let out of the environmental doghouse.

Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security - Policy Brief

December 2008

Author(s): 
David Lobell, Marshall Burke
The potential impact of climate change on the world’s poor is a topic with wide and growing interest, but there remains much uncertainty about how specifically to adapt to a changing climate.

Managing Global Insecurity: A Plan for Action

September 2008

Author(s): 
Stephen J. Stedman, Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual
The 21st century will be defined by security threats unconstrained by borders--from climate change, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism to conflict, poverty, disease, and economic instability.

Security in a World with Expanding Nuclear Power

August 2008

Author(s): 
Chaim Braun, David Elliott, Pavel Podvig, Dean Wilkening
Nuclear energy is a clean and relatively economical source of electricity, generating nearly one-sixth of the world’s electricity today.

New Day New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century

June 2008

Author(s): 
Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond, Steve Radelet, Gayle Smith, Brian Atwood, David Beckmann, Lael Brainard, Francis Fukuyama, George Ingram, Carol Lancaster, Charles MacCormack, Larry Nowels, Ray Offenheiser, Stewart Patrick, William Reese, Sam Worthington
U.S. foreign assistance—the rationale behind it, the amount we give, its orientation and organization—has changed dramatically in the last decade.

A New Currency: Climate Change and Carbon Credits

July 2004

Author(s): 
David G. Victor, Joshua C. House
A new currency is emerging in world markets.
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David Lobell Senior Fellow Professor, Earth System Science, William Wrigley Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Timothy E. Josling Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Food Research Institute, Emeritus
Donald Kennedy Professor, Biology, Emeritus
Mark C. Thurber Associate Director for Research
Sam Heft-Neal Research scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science Research scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment
Christopher Seifert PhD student, Earth System Science
Charles Perrow Visiting Scholar (in residence December-April)
Jennifer Burney Visiting Fellow
David S. Battisti Visiting Professor
Wolfram Schlenker Visiting Scholar