Author: Doug Gavel

From his perspective as Principal Advisor to the Directorate General for Climate Action in the European Commission (EC), Jacob Werksman is cautiously optimistic about the direction of international climate policy. Werksman was the expert guest in the Conversations on Climate Change and Energy Policy webinar discussion last Thursday (July 9). The...

Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) Director, Robert Stavins, opened a special session in memory of Professor Martin Weitzman at the annual meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) on Friday, June 26,...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – The Harvard Environmental Economics Program has, for the eleventh consecutive year, awarded three prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or natural-resource economics – one prize each for an undergraduate paper or senior thesis, master’s student paper, and doctoral student paper. Each prize was accompanied by a monetary award. The...

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program co-hosted, along with our colleagues at Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley, a presentation based on a paper by Paige Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The paper, "Dynamic Responses to Carbon Pricing in the...