Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Every country on Earth has now signed on to the Paris international climate agreement and pledged to dramatically reduce their carbon emissions. Fulfilling this ambition will require international cooperation at a historic level and time is running out. While many long-term changes are needed across nearly every corner of the global economy, increasing the “carbon […]
During the run up in oil prices in summer 2008, the idea of peak oil began to gain broader traction. Peak oil — when aggregate oil extraction reaches its peak and begins a terminal decline — will spell the end of the oil-based economy and infrastructure. In response to this peak, increasing prices will necessitate […]