#  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](/file_url/326)  
  
[List of participants](/file_url/325)

[Biographies of participants](/file_url/327)  
  
"[Learning by the Case Method](/file_url/318)," 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](http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/24568).” 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](/file_url/334)." Climate Change Economics 5 (3): 1-34, October 2014.

Aldy, Joseph E., and William A. Pizer. “[Comparability of Effort in International Climate Policy Architecture](http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/23828/).” 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.](http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20264)” 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

[Presentation](/file_url/335)

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](/file_url/319)"

[Study questions for case](/file_url/320)

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Day 2, Session 1: Introduction to the Day and Discussion of Distributed Generation  
Session leader: Ashley Brown

[Presentation](/file_url/336)

Day 2, Session 2: Integration of Renewables  
Session leader: Christopher Knittel

[Presentation](/file_url/337)

Day 2, Session 3: Learning by Doing and Learning by Waiting: Approaches to Renewable-Energy Technology  
Session leader: William Hogan

[Presentation](/file_url/332)

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Day 3, Session 1: The Clean Power Plan and U.S. Policy for Climate Change  
Session leader: Joseph Aldy

[Presentation](/file_url/328)

Day 3, Session 2: The State of Climate and Energy Policy in Europe  
Session leader: Denny Ellerman

[Presentation](/file_url/338)

Day 3, Session 3: International Climate Policy and the Road to Paris  
Session leader: Robert Stavins

[Presentation](/file_url/339)

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Day 4, Session 1: Innovation of Environmental and Energy Technology  
Session leader: Joseph Lassiter

Case: "[TerraPower](/file_url/321)"  
  
[Study questions for case](/file_url/322)  
  
[TerraPower Financial Model Excel Sheet](/file_url/323) (See study-question 3 for instructions.)

[Presentation](/file_url/341)

Day 4, Session 2: Explaining the Energy Paradox  
Session leader: Robert Stavins

[Presentation](/file_url/340)