2012

Gernot Wagner, a former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), has published a book entitled, But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World. Gernot is a staff economist with the Environmental...

[ The New York Times ]... Robert N. Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University, said that Durban had helped resuscitate an international effort that appeared close to collapse. He said that the tasks before it were...

[ The Huffington Post ]...My colleagues and I wrote a paper in 2009 about using real options to evaluate climate policy under uncertainty. We found that, unlike indications from cost-benefit analysis, stabilizing at 2C is a very cheap option. Better still...

[ Energy Live News ] President Barack Obama should press for a global carbon tax, a Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist has told ELN. Professor Eric S. Maskin from the Department of Economics at Harvard University suggested America should even adopt a...

[ The Washington Post ] One of the strangest aspects of the EPA’s newest rules on carbon-dioxide emissions is that they only apply to future power plants. Existing facilities — the ones that are actually producing all the pollution — get to carry on as...

[ The Huffington Post ] Gernot Wagner: Facts are polarizing, and are easily misused. That, in short, is the conclusion of the latest paper by Dan Kahan et al in "The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks,"...

[ National Geographic ] Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna, Radha Muthiah: Almost three billion people around the world—or 4 out of every 10 individuals—are exposed to high levels of smoke each day from traditional cookstoves. After water...

Gerhard Clemenz, Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, has released a HEEP Discussion Paper examining relationships among trade policy and environmental policies intended to reduce emissions of pollutants. Prof. Clemenz...

Katharine R. E. Sims, former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), is a winner of the 2011 Cozzarelli Prize. The Prize is awarded by the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) to...

Erich Muehlegger, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, along with Assistant Professor Shanjun Li of Cornell University and Resources for the Future Fellow, Joshua Linn, have released a HEEP Discussion Paper detailing the...