Energy Conservation

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Can Innovative Financing by the Public and Private Sectors Build on Momentum in Energy Efficiency Improvements for Affordable Multifamily Housing?
Nearly one in three American households in 2015 reported difficulty paying their energy bills or sustaining adequate home heating and cooling. Emerging models of energy services and financing show promise, and could identify creative ways to increase access to funding that could preserve and improve home affordability for millions of Americans.
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Dec 12, 2018
The Energy Collective
Lisa Jonsson, Aimee E. Curtright @ACurtright

Energy Consumption

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Global Methane Initiative: Converting Harmful Emissions to Usable Energy
Carbon dioxide has garnered the most attention in the climate change debate because it accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. But there is good reason to worry about methane, say Nicholas Burger and Noreen Clancy.
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Feb 6, 2013
The RAND Blog
Nicholas E. Burger, Noreen Clancy
Environmental and Natural Resource Management

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Earth Day and RAND
As people around the world prepare for the 42nd annual Earth Day this Sunday, we look back at some of the recent research from RAND's Environment, Energy, and Economic Development program.
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Apr 20, 2012
Energy Conservation

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Energy Services Analysis Can Identify Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Changing how a service is provided can create opportunities to conserve energy. A new RAND study does just that, using Energy Services Analysis to identify and evaluate new ways to reduce energy use and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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Apr 18, 2012
Global Climate Change

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Green Buildings, Jobs and Summits
If the United States is to be a global competitor in green building technology, it needs to learn from some of the countries that are at the table in Pittsburgh this week, writes Charles Ries.
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Sep 25, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Charles P. Ries @charles_ries
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Grab Vital Habitat Now: How Riverside County Can Step Up Conservation While Land Prices Are Down
The economic slowdown threatens to put a crimp in ambitious efforts to balance preservation, transportation improvements and development in western Riverside County. It doesn't have to. Actually, it presents an opportunity, writes Lloyd Dixon.
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Dec 1, 2008
The Press-Enterprise
Lloyd Dixon
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Steer a Smarter Course Than Specific Mileage Goals
Published commentary by RAND staff: Steer a Smarter Course Than Specific Mileage Goals, in the Detroit Free Press.
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Mar 16, 2007
Detroit Free Press
John D. Graham
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Fueling Opportunity
Published commentary by RAND staff: Fueling Opportunity in the Washington Times.
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May 19, 2006
Washington Times
John D. Graham
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Iraqi Oil and the Global Economy
If Saddam Hussein is ousted as leader of Iraq, the United States will face critical decisions about the future of the world's second-largest oil reserves, writes policy analyst James Bartis.
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Jan 6, 2003
Albany Times-Union
James T. Bartis

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

Can NATO Supercharge Military Greening?

Book Review: 'Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat' by Sarah Percy

Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism: Insights from RAND Research

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Energy Conservation

Can Innovative Financing by the Public and Private Sectors Build on Momentum in Energy Efficiency Improvements for Affordable Multifamily Housing?

Global Methane Initiative: Converting Harmful Emissions to Usable Energy

Earth Day and RAND

Energy Services Analysis Can Identify Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Buildings, Jobs and Summits

Grab Vital Habitat Now: How Riverside County Can Step Up Conservation While Land Prices Are Down

Steer a Smarter Course Than Specific Mileage Goals

Fueling Opportunity

Iraqi Oil and the Global Economy

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