The five issues I’ve highlighted below – wetland management, electricity markets, internal migration, water management, and rural revitalization -  all present significant challenges to policy makers at mid-century, and to those of today looking forward. Each comes about thorough a common constellation of trends that we’re already tracking.  And, while these five certainly don’t represent [...]

According to the United Nations, people were responsible for more than 27 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2004. Figure 1 shows a breakdown of global emissions by country for the top 10 emitters in 2004 (and while the data has not been fully assembled, emissions in the developing world have risen substantially since [...]

President-elect Obama has made it clear that he intends to tackle energy security and climate change. He’ll focus on investments in renewable energy, creation of millions of jobs aimed at improving infrastructure (including energy efficiency improvements) … and creation of “an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050″. While there [...]