Building Partnerships Monitoring Carbon from Space November 7 RFF Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow Molly Macauley presented “NASA's Carbon Monitoring System and the Social Cost of Carbon” at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Energy and Environment in the Social Sciences January 4–6 RFF experts participated in sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations in San Diego. Topics included designing a US carbon tax, forests and agriculture, energy extraction, and transportation economics.
Carbon Tax November 13 RFF’s Rob Williams, Dick Morgenstern, Karen Palmer, and Molly Macauley participated in a conference, “The Economics of Carbon Taxes,” co-hosted by RFF, the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and the International Monetary Fund.
Environmental Stewardship January 8 RFF’s Lynn Scarlett moderated “The Conservative Voice and Environmental Stewardship” with former US Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton and Ed Schafer, former US secretary of agriculture and former governor of North Dakota, at the inaugural Conservation and Stewardship Conference of the Conservation Leadership Council.
Water and Shale Gas November 13–14 On November 13, RFF Fellow Sheila Olmstead shared an overview, “Water Management Concerns for Unconventional Gas Development,” at the In-Depth Workshop on Water Management at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Olmstead also presented preliminary results from RFF’s shale gas study at the North American Gas Summit on November 14.
Electricity Technology January 16–17 RFF Senior Fellow Carolyn Fischer presented “Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes” at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, as well as at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
Land Conservation November 30 RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman spoke at a luncheon at the World Bank on ecosystem services programs in China, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Sustainable Conservation February 28 RFF Senior Fellow and Co-Director of RFF’s Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth James Boyd presented “Making Conservation Sustainable” at the University of Virginia.
Natural Resources December 10–13 RFF’s Molly Macauley, Becky Epanchin-Niell, Lynn Scarlett, James Boyd, and Leonard
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Shabman participated in a conference hosted by A Community on Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Markets, and Ecosystem Services Partnership, focusing on how to incorporate ecosystem services in natural resource management.
Parry co-hosted a panel with RFF experts on comprehensive tax reform and climate policy. www.rff.org/taxcode