Transport CO2 emissions continue to grow globally despite advances in low-carbon
technology and goal setting by numerous governments. In this Perspective, we summarize …

Adoption of green design and technology in buildings, which can mitigate negative impacts
on the environment, has been recognized as a key step towards global sustainable …

Inattention is a central, unifying theme for much of behavioral economics. It permeates such
disparate fields as microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, public economics, and …

Several major economies rely heavily on fossil fuel production and exports, yet current low-
carbon technology diffusion, energy efficiency and climate policy may be substantially …

Autonomous vehicles use sensing and communication technologies to navigate safely and
efficiently with little or no input from the driver. These driverless technologies will create an …

Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and
environmental damages associated with energy use, but it has long been observed that …

We review research that measures time preferences—ie, preferences over intertemporal
trade—offs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money …

We develop a framework to estimate willingness to pay for clean air from defensive
investments on differentiated products. Applying this framework to scanner data on air …

Imperfect information and inattention to energy costs are important potential motivations for
energy efficiency standards and subsidies. We evaluate these motivations in the lightbulb …

Many analysts of the energy industry have long believed that energy efficiency offers an
enormous “win-win” opportunity: through aggressive energy conservation policies, we can …