Ashley Lawson

Posts by Ashley Lawson

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Guide to Public-Private Collaboration on City Climate Resilience Planning

Cities and businesses are separately preparing for climate change and building their resilience to impacts. But they have not had guidance on how to work together, until now. This report lays out the value in public-private collaboration on city climate …

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Hurricane Florence: More than just the weather — climate change, too
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Florence Highlights Coastal Resilience Planning
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Resilience Strategies for Power Outages

A warming atmosphere is giving extra energy to storms, making the hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms of today more intense than those of the past. This trend is projected to accelerate in the years to come. These stronger storms are more …

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Decarbonizing U.S. Transportation

This is one in a series of briefs prepared as part of C2ES’s Climate Innovation 2050 initiative, which brings together leading companies to examine potential pathways toward substantially decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Other briefs focus on Agriculture & Forestry, Buildings, …

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Decarbonizing U.S. Power

This is one in a series of briefs prepared as part of C2ES’s Climate Innovation 2050 initiative, which brings together leading companies to examine potential pathways toward substantially decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Other briefs focus on Agriculture & Forestry, Buildings, …

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Smarter Infrastructure Through Resilience
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A Dubious Record: Increasing Costs of Climate Change
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US companies, communities rely on federal climate science
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New research highlights flood risks from sea-level rise
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Good and bad options for changing California’s cap-and-trade program
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Cities and businesses can make more resilient communities by working together
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Addressing California cap and trade concerns
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It’s certain: The Earth is getting warmer, and human activity is largely to blame
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Countries chart pathways toward deeper decarbonization
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Insights from a Comparative Analysis of Clean Power Plan Modeling

An updated context, including falling natural gas prices and the extension of federal tax credits, have prompted new modeling of the likely impacts of the Clean Power Plan. Five studies have recently been released analyzing the projected effects of the …

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Carbon trading under the Clean Power Plan

The following article appeared in the July 2016 issue of EM, the Magazine for Environmental Managers.   The Clean Power Plan gives states the option to include carbon trading provisions in their state implementation plans. This carbon trading can come in …

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Making the Clean Power Plan work with city energy goals
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California-Quebec auction hits a record low (and that’s probably a good thing)
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2015 was the warmest year on record
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Attributing extreme weather events to climate change
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Are 2015’s extreme weather events driven by climate change or El Niño?