PROGRAM OVERVIEW
CSE uses its economic, scientific and legal expertise to develop innovative policy solutions to some of humanity’s most tenacious challenges. We work on market based solutions as well as new or amended regulatory approaches. We work with partners to develop solutions that are internationally applicable but tailored to institutions that operate at the local level. We have successfully fought for changes in public policies to protect at risk forests, farmland, wetlands, and wildlife habitat, halt new fossil fuel infrastructure, change priorities for public finance and help alleviate the growing inequality divide through affordable housing and living wages. Our policy work takes two basic forms:
- Model legislation – CSE works with partners and legislators at the national, state, and local levels to draft model laws, resolutions, ordinances that speed the transition to a sustainable society and halt new projects or programs that accelerate climate change, extinction and poverty.
- Regulatory reform – CSE works within the administrative processes of federal, state, and local public agencies to update regulations, rules, and guidance manuals to better reflect legislative intent, best available science and best practice.
PROGRAM NEWS AND UPDATES

Stimulating the Green Industry Transition, a Policy Brief
In a world of increasing resource scarcity, climate change, pollution, and depletion of natural capital, economic growth must increasingly rely on clean and efficient production processes to be sustained. Green industry is a concept used to capture this reality. CSE teamed up win economist Erin Gray to prepare a policy ... Read More

Post-2015 Development Agenda
Since the year 2000, the United Nations’ global development agenda has been guided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – a set of eight broad goals and associated targets and indicators that were designed to inspire actions by international economic, financial, and aid institutions and their counterparts at the national ... Read More

Aichi Biodivesity Goals: A Global Cost Assessment
In 2010 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 – 2020 with the purpose of stimulating a diverse array of activities by governments, NGOs, business leaders, and other stakeholders to halt the loss of biological diversity. In recognition of the critical importance ... Read More