California landscape of climate finance
To support California in meeting its climate goals and using its budget most effectively, CPI created this first-of-its-kind landscape of climate finance in California, building on the flagship Global
California
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Determining climate effects on US total agricultural productivity
<p>Projections of the economic consequences of climate change are valuable for policy making but generally rely on integrated assessments that cannot account for highly localized climate effects. Most
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Post‐2020 carbon constraints: modeling LCFS and cap‐and‐trade
A combination of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and California’s Cap-and-Trade Program can reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dependence on oil more economically and effectively,
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Tesla moves beyond electric cars with new California battery farm
The Tesla battery farm will be used to store energy and meet spikes in demand – like on hot summer afternoons when buildings start to crank up the air conditioning. From the road, the close to 400 white
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A comparison of contracts for difference versus traditional financing schemes to support ultralow-carbon fuel production in California
Develops a cost-benefit analysis to compare the impact of three separate policies to spur the additional production of ultralow-carbon fuels in California: a contract-for difference price guarantee, a
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A comparison of contracts for difference versus traditional financing schemes to support ultralow-carbon fuel production in California
Develops a cost-benefit analysis to compare the impact of three separate policies to spur the additional production of ultralow-carbon fuels in California: a contract-for difference price guarantee, a
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The effects of policy-driven air quality improvements on children’s respiratory health
The research report describes a study by Frank Gilliland and colleagues that was funded under HEI’s Accountability research program. The investigators collected air quality data and lung function and respiratory
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Companies hit by rising water costs
Companies worldwide are being warned that taking water preservation measures is now vital, and that those whole fail to act are likely to face mounting financial losses. The Carbon Disclosure Project
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Predictability of seasonal streamflow in a changing climate in the Sierra Nevada
<p>The goal of this work is to assess climate change and its impact on the predictability of seasonal (i.e., April–July) streamflow in major water supply watersheds in the Sierra Nevada.</p> <p><strong><a
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Perspectives on the causes of exceptionally low 2015 snowpack in the western United States
<p>Augmenting previous papers about the exceptional 2011–2015 California drought, we offer new perspectives on the “snow drought” that extended into Oregon in 2014 and Washington in 2015.
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Cannabis (Cannabis sativa or C. indica) agriculture and the environment: a systematic, spatially-explicit survey and potential impacts
<p>Cannabis agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States that is changing rapidly with policy liberalization. Anecdotal observations fuel speculation about associated environmental