2015

[Robert Stavins' blog] On June 18, 2015, Coral Davenport, writing in the New York Times, was the first in the press to note that the encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si', released by Pope Francis that same day, with tremendous praise from diverse...

[ Bloomberg View ] Cass Sunstein: This week’s decision by the Environmental Protection Agency, imposing a new limit on ground-level ozone at 70 parts per billion, was eminently reasonable -- an impressive vindication of both law and science. The loud...

[ World Economic Forum ]...In some states, as well as many parts of the world, if it can’t be used instantly to meet, solar energy incident on solar panels goes to waste if the electricity isn’t stored. However, in many states, customers have the right to...

[ Foreign Policy ]...“The complaints, from people in Congress and elsewhere, [were], ‘Okay, so they’ve given an aspirational target, but they haven’t said how they’re going to do it.’ Well, now they’ve done precisely that, and that’s extremely important,”...

[ Harvard Economics News ] The Brookings Institution has appointed Harvard economist James Stock as one of two co-editors of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

[ Bloomberg View ] Cass Sunstein: This week, Pope Francis is expected to implore both the U.S. Congress and the UN General Assembly to take aggressive steps to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. His thinking on this issue is not simple alarm over climate...

[ Yale Environment 360 ] Robert N. Stavins: There is much in Pope Francis’ climate change encyclical that is commendable, but where it drifts into matters of public policy, it is less helpful. First, the pope neglects the causes of climate change. It is...

[Robert Stavins' blog] The upcoming Paris climate negotiations will constitute a critical step in the ongoing international process to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The question of whether the Paris outcome will be sufficiently ambitious...

HEEP Faculty Fellow Richard Zeckhauser was honored in the August 2015 issue of the American Economic Review as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, the premier scholarly association for the field of economics. His biography in the...

[ Fair Observer ] Rohini Pande, Robert Rosenbaum, and Kevin Rowe: In the course of two years, India has claimed from China the dubious distinction as the world’s most polluted country. Whether India deserves this title or not depends on how, when and...