Barry Rabe was quoted in a New York Times ClimateWire article called "British Columbia Survives 3 Years and $848 Million Worth of Carbon Taxes." Though the full economic value of British Columbia's carbon tax isn't yet known, analysts say it is...
Barry Rabe was interviewed on Michigan Public Radio's "The Environment Report" about a recent Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) report that he co-authored. The report summarizes and compares the findings of two public opinion...
Americans are less willing to open their wallets to pay for increased production of renewable energy resources than Canadians, a new University of Michigan report indicates.Americans who indicated they would not pay anything each year was at 41...
Two Ford School MPP students, Katlego Moilwa and Marisol Ramos, will travel in a group of thirty University of Michigan students, alumni, and faculty to Cancun, Mexico for the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The conference, lasting...
A new book edited by Barry Rabe, "Greenhouse Governance: Addressing Climate Change in America" features a number of America's preeminent public policy scholars examining some aspect of governance and climate change. The book, published by the...
You walk into your office, find it unbearably hot, and jack up the AC. Your office mates may complain when they have to dig out their cardigans in July, but the act itself is easily reversed with the flip of a switch and, at worst, you've only...
The New York Times interviewed Barry Rabe about the dimming prospects in several Midwest states for climate initiatives such as renewable energy programs and emissions regulation.Governors have significant power to set state energy policy in several...
A conversation with Professor Barry G. Rabe, the first social scientist ever awarded the prestigious Annual Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
States and regions have quietly emerged as hotbeds of innovation...
Shobita Parthasarathy spoke to NewScientist about a recent geoengineering research conference that gathered scientists and policy experts to discuss the creation of a voluntary set of standards to guide international ‘planetary rescue plan’ research...
Voice of America interviewed Barry Rabe for an article discussing the recently published League of Conservation Voters (LCV) 2009 National Environmental Scorecard, a report that tracks the number of Congressional votes on environmental and energy...
Barry Rabe and Carl Simon were interviewed on a 'green' edition of the The Lynn Rivers Show on local NPR station, WEMU.The hour-long show, hosted by former U.S. Rep Lynn Rivers, featured Rabe and Simon talking about climate change, green jobs, and...
New research by Barry Rabe on American public opinion of climate change was published in a Brookings Institution report, "The Climate of Belief: American Public Opinion on Climate Change." In this report, Rabe and co-author Christopher P. Borick...
In an article called "Most back a treaty on global warming," Barry Rabe helped to explain the results of a recent USA Today/Gallup poll. The poll, which asked Americans about the need for U.S. climate change policy, produced mixed results. According...
Barry Rabe spoke to USA Today about President Obama’s campaign promise of creating a cap-and-trade system to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Obama is set to announce U.S. climate change goals at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change...
Barry Rabe and John Ciorciari were interviewed in an all-Ford School edition of The Lynn Rivers Show on local NPR station, WEMU.The show, an hour-long weekly news program hosted by former U.S. Rep Lynn Rivers, includes extended interviews with Barry...
A short video by Barry Rabe is featured in a project called 100 Voices in 100 Days. The British Embassy in Washington DC began this initiative 100 days before international climate change negotiations open in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 7, 2009....
Frank Szollosi (Annenberg Intern) came to the Ford School to 'sharpen his policy chops.' He joined the MPP class of 2010 with experience as a congressional press secretary, a political consultant, and a seven-year member of the Toledo City...
Rabe co-authored the "Survey of Michigan Residents on the Issue of Global Warming and Climate Policy Options" with Christopher Borick, a professor of political science at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. It is the first known survey of its kind...
Jazz musician Etienne Charles explores the effects of climate change on vulnerable communities. We are excited about his appearance as the Ford School of Public Policy’s annual Martin Luther King Day speaker on January 17.
Climate change is often described as a wicked problem, one with many interdependent, changing, and thorny factors to solve. For policymakers, this often means balancing complex and sometimes competing preferences from a range of stakeholders, both responding to those voices and communicating about policies in ways that will resonate with a wide range of audiences.
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As the life-threatening impacts of the climate crisis grow more aggressive each year, the Biden-Harris administration is implementing an all-of-government approach at the scale and speed this urgent situation demands.
Join Dr. Tamma Carleton for the fourth installment of the International Policy Research Seminar (IPRS), hosted by the Ford School's International Policy Center (IPC).
Join Net Impact Undergrad and co-sponsors in welcoming Gerry Anderson (MBA/MPP ‘88), former Chairman and CEO of DTE Energy to share about his journey from being a driven undergrad engineer to becoming a highly influential leader in sustainability as the CEO of DTE Energy.
STPP hosts a conversation with Michelle Brechtelsbauer (MPP '16 and STPP '16). Michelle is Director of Stakeholder Relations at the Energy Impact Center, a DC-based think tank working to spur a nuclear energy revolution to combat climate change.
Join us for a casual conversation with Naomi Klein that will touch upon the pivotal moment we are in as we work to address the climate crisis, fight for climate justice, and examine the detrimental impacts that colonialism and capitalism have had on our planet and society.
This panel discussion will feature climate policy experts as they provide insights on the current and future status of American climate action, steps needed to secure environmental justice, and the issues that need your advocacy.
Please join us for a virtual seminar with Dr. Babajide Ololajulo, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Dr. Patrick Cobbinah, Urban Planning Academic in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, in conversation with Justine M. Davis, LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) at the University of Michigan.
