HKS climate change cases span the globe and cover a variety of disciplines from economics to leadership, and from energy policy to international trade. For your convenience, this resource has been categorized in two ways: by topic and by region.

Climate Change Cases by Topic

Climate Change Cases by Region

Economics of Climate Change

Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards 2017-2025 by Anjani Datla and Albert Nichols

Pricing Carbon: The Birth of British Columbia's Carbon Tax and sequel by Anjani Datla and Henry Lee

Shaping the Future of Solar Power: Climate Change, Industrial Policy and Free Trade by Anjani Datla and Robert Lawrence

Shaping the Future of Solar Power: Climate Change, Industrial Policy and Free Trade (B) by Anjani Datla and Robert Lawrence

Solar Panels and Safeguards: Rising Tensions in the Global Trading System by Anjani Datla and Robert Lawrence

Untapped Potential: Renewable Energy in Argentina and sequel by Anjani Datla and Henry Lee 

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Government and Regulation

Buchanan Renewables: Bringing Power to Liberia by Tamara Heimur, Henry Lee, and Akash Deep

Choosing the Road Less Traveled: How Cycling Took Hold in Copenhagen by Pamela Varley and Quinton Mayne

Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards 2017-2025 by Anjani Datla and Albert Nichols

Gainesville Regional Utilities' Feed-in Tariff and epilogue by Leah Stokes and Henry Lee

Miami-Dade County and Sea Rise and sequel by Henry Lee, Natalie Unterstell, Shauna Theel, and Pinar De Neve

Pricing Carbon: The Birth of British Columbia's Carbon Tax and sequel by Anjani Datla and Henry Lee

The California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) by Jose Gomez-Ibanez

The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat and sequel by Pamela Varley and John D. Donahue

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Evidence and Decision-Making

Evaluating the Impact of Solar Lamps in Uganda by Anjani Datla, Dan Levy, and Patricia Garcia-Rios

Fighting Pollution with Data: Environmental Audits and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and sequel by Anjani Datla and Rohini Pande

Mothers Out Front by Laura Winig and Marshall Ganz

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Leadership and Negotiation

Innovation at GSA: Zero Environmental Footprint and the Extreme Challenge (A) by James Quinn, Patricia Garcia-Rios, and Steven Kelman

Mothers Out Front by Laura Winig and Marshall Ganz

Negotiating toward the Paris Accords: WWF & the Role of Forests in the 2015 Climate Agreement by Pamela Varley and Robert Wilkinson

Pricing Carbon: The Birth of British Columbia's Carbon Tax and sequel by Anjani Datla and Henry Lee

The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat and sequel by Pamela Varley and John D. Donahue

This Far and No Further: The Rise and Fall of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences by David Kennedy and Bill Clark

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Energy Policy and Renewables

Ambitious but Achievable: Using Land Use and Transportation Plans to Reduce GHG Emissions in California and sequel by David Luberoff, Carl Allen, and Jose Gomez-Ibanez

Buchanan Renewables: Bringing Power to Liberia by Tamara Heimur, Henry Lee, and Akash Deep

Caño Martín Peña: Land Ownership and Politics Collide in Puerto Rico by Patricia Garcia-Rios and Quinton Mayne

Costa Rica's Forests and the Market for Carbon Emissions Reduction Credits by Rene Castro Salazar and Jose Gomez-Ibanez

Electric Vehicles in Cities by Yennga Khuong and Jose Gomez-Ibanez

Greenland and the Paris Agreement by Katie Segal, Elsenguaq Silassen, and Halla Hrund Logadóttir

Iceland's Energy Policy: Finding the Right Path Forward by Halla Hrund Logadóttir and Henry Lee

Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act: Can the Tax Code Transform American Energy? by Laura Winig and John D. Donahue

Integrating Renewable Energy in Argentina by Anjani Datla and Henry Lee

Oregon's Wind Energy Health Impact Assessment by David Tannenwald and Arnold M. Howitt

Power Partnership: The Creation of a Hybrid Electric Delivery Truck Eaton, Fedex, and Environmental Defense by Barbara J. Mack and Alan Trager

Rural Electrification in Nicaragua (Abridged) by Tahir Sheikh and Jose Gomez-Ibanez

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Disaster Preparedness

A Cascade of Emergencies: Responding to Superstorm Sandy in New York City (A) by David W. Giles and Arnold M. Howitt 

A Cascade of Emergencies: Responding to Superstorm Sandy in New York City (B) by David W. Giles and Arnold M. Howitt

Climate Resilience in New York City: The Battle over East River Park by Patricia Garcia-Rios and Justin de Benedictis-Kessner 

Miami-Dade County and Sea Rise and sequel by Henry Lee, Natalie Unterstell, Shauna Theel, and Pinar De Neve

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