[Financial Times ]...Doha’s chief accomplishment was closing down older negotiations so work could start on this 2015 treaty. But Doha also agreed to establish a process to look at compensating poorer countries for loss and damage suffered because of climate change, something wealthy countries have long resisted.

This so-far vague measure will undoubtedly require years more sleepless nights in convention centres to become reality. But it does show how the tenor of the talks is changing, and why they should be regarded as what Harvard University climate agreement expert...

[The Boston Globe ]...While any taxes are unpopular, there could be compromise embedded in such a tax, says Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School who is affiliated with Resources for the Future. A carbon tax could help avoid less palatable alternatives such as eliminating mortgage interest deductions, but it also may mean Democrats would have to give up EPA's regulatory authority over greenhouse gases, he said.

[Fox News ]...Among the many research items on Jorgenson’s Harvard University website, however, is testimony last June before the Senate Committee on Finance entitled “Tax Reform: the Impact on U.S. Energy Policy,” in which the economist outlines a new system of energy taxes on coal, oil and natural gas that could “clean up the environment and slow global warming” The new tax revenue could also “close the budget gap and reduce tax rates as part of comprehensive tax reform.”

Martin Weitzman, a HEEP Faculty Fellow, and Gernot Wagner, a former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of HEEP, recently wrote an article in Foreign Policy, "Playing God," exploring various options for "geoengineering"—and changing attitudes toward these options. The urgency of climate change has convinced some...