Nicholas Institute For Environmental Policy Solutions

Established in 2005, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions helps decision makers create timely, effective, and economically practical solutions to the world's critical environmental challenges. 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 convene these individuals to discuss and achieve common understandings regarding this century's most pressing environmental problems. Tim Profeta serves as director of the Nicholas Institute, which comprises the following six programs: Climate and Energy, Ocean and Coastal Policy, State Policy, Environmental Economics, Water Policy, and Ecosystem Services. Follow us on Twitter: @NichInstitute Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NicholasInstitute