Workshop on the Analysis and Management of Energy and Environmental Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
April 13-16, 2015
Conducted by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program
in Collaboration with The Enel Foundation
Workshop Readings and Materials
Please read materials listed below prior to the workshop sessions for which they are assigned. Additional presentations may be distributed during the relevant sessions. In particular, it is essential that participants read the case studies and associated study questions in advance. There will be little time during the workshop itself to complete readings.
Background materials for the workshop as a whole:
Agenda for the Workshop
List of participants
Biographies of participants
"Learning by the Case Method," John S. Hammond (This reading is optional but may be useful in preparing case studies.)
Following are research papers referenced by Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins as of possible interest to workshop participants:
Bodansky, Daniel M., Seth A. Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins. “Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies through a Future International Agreement.” Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, November 2014.
Bosetti, Valentina, and Jeffrey Frankel. "Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets." Climate Change Economics 5 (3): 1-34, October 2014.
Aldy, Joseph E., and William A. Pizer. “Comparability of Effort in International Climate Policy Architecture.” Discussion Paper 2014-62. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, January 2014.
Metcalf, Gilbert E., and David Weisbach. “Linking Policies When Tastes Differ: Global Climate Policy in a Heterogeneous World.” Discussion Paper 2010-38, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, July 2010.
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Workshop Presentations
Day 1, Sessions 1-2: Principles of Policy Analysis: An Economic View of Energy and Environmental Policy
Session leader: Robert Stavins
Day 1, Session 3: Private Risk and Social Welfare in the Electric Sector
Session leader: Forest Reinhardt
Case: "Colbún and the Future of Chile's Power"
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Day 2, Session 1: Introduction to the Day and Discussion of Distributed Generation
Session leader: Ashley Brown
Day 2, Session 2: Integration of Renewables
Session leader: Christopher Knittel
Day 2, Session 3: Learning by Doing and Learning by Waiting: Approaches to Renewable-Energy Technology
Session leader: William Hogan
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Day 3, Session 1: The Clean Power Plan and U.S. Policy for Climate Change
Session leader: Joseph Aldy
Day 3, Session 2: The State of Climate and Energy Policy in Europe
Session leader: Denny Ellerman
Day 3, Session 3: International Climate Policy and the Road to Paris
Session leader: Robert Stavins
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Day 4, Session 1: Innovation of Environmental and Energy Technology
Session leader: Joseph Lassiter
Case: "TerraPower"
Study questions for case
TerraPower Financial Model Excel Sheet (See study-question 3 for instructions.)
Day 4, Session 2: Explaining the Energy Paradox
Session leader: Robert Stavins