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David G. Victor

David G. Victor is Professor of Industrial Organization and Technology Innovation at the University of California, San Diego, where he co-directs the Deep Decarbonization Initiative, funded in part by the nonpartisan Electric Power Research Institute. He is also adjunct Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His latest book on climate governance, coauthored with Charles Sabel, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2021.

Articles

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Green New Deal and our new book Climate Action.
Joshua Cohen, Edward J. Markey, David G. Victor, Alyssa Battistoni, Thea Riofrancos, Robert C. Hockett
Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
Charles Sabel, David G. Victor

University fossil-fuel divestment is a well-meaning, but misguided, enterprise.

David G. Victor
Coal sits at the center of the most inconvenient truth about global-warming policy.
David G. Victor, Richard K. Morse

Forums

Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

David G. Victor, Charles Sabel

Forum Responses

In these times especially, both politics and interests are plastic. Experimentalism seeks to make this fact both politically visible and politically productive.
David G. Victor, Charles Sabel
A central message of the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that while the likely effects of climate change are getting scarier, policymakers still haven’t...
David G. Victor, George R. Tynan
Almost every facet of modern life—from driving to the grocery store to turning on a light—relies on inexpensive and abundant fossil fuels. When burned for power, these fuels yield emissions of carbon...
Danny Cullenward, David G. Victor

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