CSPO News In the Press

• Exploring ethical reasoning among climate negotiators

  Manjana Milkoreit explores how policy-makers and advisors, diplomats, or representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) think about their own and others’ ethical obligations in climate change negotiation.

• Social Planning for Energy Transitions

  Clark A. Miller and Jennifer Richter published an article in Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports on the social dimensions of energy policy development.

• Creating a taxonomic tool for technocracy and applying it to Silicon Valley

  Jathan Sadowski has co-authored an article in Technology in Society to advance theoretical understanding of the nature and scope of technocracy.

• Electric Utility Spiral

  E. Graffy

  Elisa Graffy, Professor of Practice at CSPO and Co-Director of Energy Policy, Law and Governance for ASU LightWorks, has a new article in the Energy Law Journal, which is available by open access at the journal website.

• Our High-Energy Planet

  The first report of the Climate Pragmatism project

  Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High-Energy Planet.

• Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

  Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be detrimental to three essential food crops in temperate and tropical regions.

• Climate policy robs the world’s poor of their hopes

  “If we are forced to adapt to life on a planet with a less hospitable climate, the poor should at least confront the challenge with the same advantages that are enjoyed by the rich” say Dan Sarewitz and Roger Pielke in an article published in Financial Times.