Reports and publications

One pager on the EDFE report on barriers to electric vehicle growth

An interview conducted by the The International Business Review, a student-run print publication based at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The Trump administration is chipping away at the science that environmental protection depends on. Here’s why its efforts will fail.

Get a behind the scenes look at this year’s UN Climate Action Summit.

If you take care of fish, you’re taking care of a world where people and nature can prosper together. It is not too late to think this way. Believing we can make a difference is essential.

Joint NGO Letter Opposing OIAI Proposal

Companies in the IT sector can deliver on climate Week commitments through energy innovation in data centers.

The push for clean energy must be supplemented by a suite of technologies known as carbon dioxide removal.

This study presents the first systematic literature review of academic research on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Community Rating System (CRS) program. The CRS is a voluntary program created in 1990 as a means to incentivize communities in the United States to implement floodplain management activities that surpass those required under the National Flood Insurance Program. As participating communities adopt additional flood mitigation measures, flood insurance policy holders in those communities receive reductions in their flood insurance premiums. To identity studies for inclusion, the authors searched three academic databases using the keywords “Community Rating System” and “Federal Emergency Management Agency” and “Community Rating System” and “FEMA.” We discovered 44 studies that met our selection criteria (e.g., peer-reviewed, focus on CRS, and are empirical) and are included in the review. The findings provide significant insights into the current state of research on the CRS. This paper concludes by providing some recommendations to policymakers aiming to enhance communities’ resilience to floods and by outlining a future research agenda for the academic and practitioner communities.