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January 7, 2020	Is Climate Risk Insurable?	Carolyn Kousky	As climate-related disasters become more severe and frequent, insurers and governments face an economic black hole.
December 10, 2019	Airlines Struggle to Rise to Climate Challenge	Andrew Murphy	The airline industry has a plan to limit its carbon footprint. Will it deliver?
November 26, 2019	Rethinking Global Emissions Trading	Suzi Kerr	The Environmental Defense Fund’s chief economist discusses a plan that leverages international cooperation to achieve ambitious, and durable greenhouse emissions reductions under the Paris climate framework.
October 29, 2019	The Rise of Partisan Politics in Energy Regulation	Cheryl LaFleur	Cheryl LaFleur, former commissioner with the U.S.’ top electricity and gas market regulator, talks about the growing influence of partisan politics in energy regulation.
September 17, 2019	Climate Denialism, Florida, and the Future of Climate Politics	Rafe Pomerance	Rafe Pomerance, an early campaigner for climate action and the subject of Nathaniel Rich’s book Losing Earth, discusses the increasingly pivotal role of climate change in U.S. electoral politics.
July 23, 2019	How the Democratic-Republican Climate Rift Became Political Reality	Riley Dunlap	Over the past half-century, Americans have become increasingly polarized over the issues of environment and climate change. A pioneer in the field of environmental sociology discusses how views on climate have become an essential element of party ideology, and what it means for the 2020 election.
June 25, 2019	Does Attribution Science Give Climate Litigators a Smoking Gun?	Michael Burger, Peter Frumhoff	Climate attribution science allows connections to be made between extreme weather events and a warming climate. The science is also being used to trace climate change to the activities of specific industries and companies, potentially generating evidence to fuel climate litigation.
June 11, 2019	Three Pathways to Uphold America’s Paris Commitment	Matthew Binsted, Brad Townsend	Can consumers take the lead in reducing U.S. carbon emissions in the absence of strong federal climate policy? New research takes a look at three aggressive pathways for the U.S. to meet the Paris goals.
April 2, 2019	A Hard Look at Negative Emissions	Glen Peters	Much faith is being put in the ability of negative emissions technologies to slow the pace of climate change. Glen Peters of Norway’s Center for International Climate Research looks at the potential of negative emissions strategies, and the steep challenges to implementing them.
March 19, 2019	200 Years of Energy History in 30 Minutes	Jesús Fernández-Villaverde	The current energy transition is fraught with economic and social implications, not to mention abundant political squabbles. An economist looks at the past 200 years of global energy history and finds that difficult transitions are nothing new.
March 5, 2019	Can Norway’s State Oil Company Be A Climate Champion?	Stephen Bull	Norway is pursuing a future rich in fossil energy and climate solutions. Can its oil company, Equinor, reconcile these priorities and continue to reliably finance the country’s expansive social welfare system? Equinor’s clean energy chief weighs in.
February 19, 2019	Getting to the Right Carbon Price	Dallas Burtraw	Bipartisan carbon pricing proposals have started to appear at the national level, which begs a question: what’s the right price for carbon? An advisor to California and RGGI carbon markets offers insights.
January 22, 2019	Where Does the Defense Department Really Stand on Climate?	Mark Nevitt	Congress has played down climate change while demanding that the Pentagon tackle climate-related security risks. A former DOD environmental lawyer looks at military efforts to address climate, and political mine fields along the way.
January 8, 2019	Welcome to the Anthropocene, Our New Biogeophysical Home	Will Steffen	Mankind’s impact on Earth extends well beyond climate change to the broader biosphere, where the conditions that nurtured the development of modern humans are at risk of being lost in a new epoch known as the Anthropocene.
December 11, 2018	Bold Climate Policy Is Coming. Investors, Take Note	Nathan Fabian	A group of global investors foresees bold policy action on climate by the mid-2020s. What will such action, dubbed the Inevitable Policy Response, mean for capital markets and economies?

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Since the first season of our podcast series, Andy Stone has directed each episode of Energy Policy Now—defining topics, inviting guests, and leading informative conversations.

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Andy Stone

Energy Policy Now Host and Producer

Andy Stone is producer and host of Energy Policy Now, the Kleinman Center’s podcast series. He previously worked in business planning with PJM Interconnection and was a senior energy reporter at Forbes Magazine.