About the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability 

The Nicholas Institute is part of Duke University and its wider community of world-class scholars. This unique resource allows the Nicholas Institute’s team of economists, scientists, lawyers and policy experts to not only deliver timely, credible analyses to a wide variety of decision makers, but also to convene these decision makers to reach a shared understanding regarding this century’s most pressing environmental problems.

The Institute offers guidance on undergraduate and graduate-level education in climate, sustainability, and energy issues. The Nicholas Institute improves environmental policymaking worldwide through objective, fact-based research to confront the climate crisis, clarify the economics of limiting carbon pollution, harness emerging environmental markets, put the value of nature’s benefits on the balance sheet, develop adaptive water management approaches, and identify other strategies to attain community resilience.

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N-EWN Point of Contact:  Lydia Olander

Operations:  Sara Mason

Communications:  Braden Phillips-WelbornJeremy Ashton

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