Tim Searchinger

Nov 12, 2024 | wri.org | Tim Searchinger |Richard Waite

Denmark’s groundbreaking new agriculture and climate policy, which taxes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock production, restores nature and pays farmers to reduce nitrogen pollution, is the world’s most comprehensive national effort to address the environmental challenges of agriculture. Globally, agriculture and associated land use change contribute around one quarter of GHG emissions.

Jun 27, 2024 | treefrogcreative.ca | Tim Searchinger |Steve Berry |Linda Coady |David Elstone

What Economics Does — or Doesn’t — Tell Us About the Climate Consequences of Using Wood By Tim Searchinger and Steve Berry World Resources Institute June 26, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: United States To reduce global carbon emissions, should people harvest and use more wood or less?

Jun 26, 2024 | wri.org | Tim Searchinger |Steve Berry

Timothy Searchinger is a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University and Technical Director for Agriculture, Forestry and Ecosystems at WRI. This article was written in collaboration with Steve Berry, David Swenson Professor of Economics at Yale University and Faculty Director at the Tobin Center for Economic Policy. To reduce global carbon emissions, should people harvest and use more wood or less?

Jul 20, 2023 | wri.org | Tim Searchinger |Liqing Peng |Jessica Zionts |Richard Waite

In this report, WRI researchers explore how rising demand for food, wood and shelter is squeezing land that’s needed for storing carbon and protecting biodiversity. This research uses new modeling to give a true global picture of the carbon opportunity costs for land use and proposes a four-pronged approach–produce, protect, reduce, restore–for sustainably managing the world’s finite land.

Jul 19, 2023 | wri.org | Tim Searchinger |Liqing Peng |Richard Waite |Jessica Zionts

Because concrete and steel used to construct buildings are a major source of global greenhouse gas emissions, there is growing interest in “mass timber” — a supposedly lower-carbon option — to replace them. New ways of gluing pieces of wood together to form strong beams and structural panels provide opportunities to use wood even in tall buildings. But new research finds that using wood in construction is likely to increase emissions for many decades, even relative to using concrete and steel.