2013

[ The New York Times ]...The simplest overall change that would raise the price would be to “reduce the cap,” or permanently reduce the number of allowances available, said Robert N. Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. But...

Professor David Drake of Harvard Business School (see feature on HEEP's home page) co-authored a discussion paper with Stefan Spinler of the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany titled " Sustainable Operations Management: An enduring stream...

[ The New York Times ]...More than 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are now subject to carbon pricing systems. About 60 other states, provinces or countries are considering similar approaches, according to a recent World Bank report. Carbon...

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), visited the Harvard Kennedy School on September 27, 2013. The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted Ms. Figueres, who met with Kennedy...

[ Nature ]...“The IPCC is a scientific body whose task is to compare and review the relevant literature,” says Stavins. “Unfortunately, in my view, the IPCC has in the past overstretched its mandate. It has become too political — and that hasn't done it...

[ Harvard Gazette ] GAZETTE: Can you tell me who is attending the conference and describe its purpose? STAVINS: This is the 19th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]. There will be...

The journal Nature recently profiled Ottmar Edenhofer, focusing on his leadership role within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, has worked closely with Edenhofer...

[ Public Radio International ]...A new report from the Overseas Development Institute in London pegs these subsidies worldwide each year at more than half a trillion dollars. The argument is there's little chance of reducing global warming emissions...

[ The New York Times ]... Robert N. Stavins, the director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, said that a more cooperative approach by China would be a major lift to prospects for a new treaty, especially if it helped persuade other emerging...

[ PBS NewsHour ]... ROBERT STAVINS, Harvard University: The basic question that needed to be resolved in Warsaw — and I think it was accomplished — was whether or not the countries of the world could remain on the track that was started two years ago at a...