STANFORD DOERR SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY

Underexamined questions.
Lasting answers.

Our lab is dedicated to understanding the unavoidable environmental tradeoffs of energy, food, and material security, and to prioritizing the most sustainable solutions.

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Where the lab works

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Energy

Food

Water

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Climate

Health

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adaptation

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Air pollution

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PUBLICATION

The net-zero security advantage

Our recent Nature Climate Change paper highlights how clean energy reduces trade risks in most places.

Nature Climate Change · 2025
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Fighting fire fuels

Per-km² costs and benefits of wildfire fuel treatment in California.
PUBLICATION

Multiregional accounting for corporate carbon emissions

How do single-region input-output models distort the view of upstream scope 3 emissions in corporate footprints? And why does it matter?

Nature Communications · 2025

Underexamined questions.Lasting answers.

Where the lab works

The net-zero security advantage

Fighting fire fuels

Multiregional accounting for corporate carbon emissions

Underexamined questions.
Lasting answers.