2015

The Society for Risk Analysis announced on December 8, 2015 that it would present its prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award for 2015 to HEEP Faculty Fellow James Hammitt. The award is granted to “any person for extraordinary achievement in science...

[ Jeffrey Frankel's Blog] How should one evaluate the agreement reached in Paris this month at the United Nations climate change conference? No sooner was the deal announced on December 12 than the debate erupted. Some avid environmentalists were...

[ Harvard Business Review ]...HBR: How have businesspeople’s attitudes toward environmental issues evolved over the years? Reinhardt: The response has never been monolithic. There are always people who see environmental issues as sources of additional...

[ Harvard Gazette ]... STAVINS: There are signals to the business community and others in two ways. One way is that, for example, people listened to the radio this morning, and if you’re a CEO, then when you get to the office you might be likely to have a...

[Robert Stavins' blog] The Paris Agreement, a truly landmark climate accord, which was gaveled through today, December 12, 2015, at 7:26 pm (Paris time) at the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP-21), checks all the boxes in my five-point...

[ National Journal ]...“More im­port­ant at the Par­is cli­mate talks … are the dis­cus­sions and de­bates re­gard­ing the scope of par­ti­cip­a­tion (now hav­ing reached some 180 coun­tries that ac­count for 95 per­cent of glob­al emis­sions), the am­bi...

[ PBS NewsHour ] One hundred and fifty world leaders are in Paris this week for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Their goal? To limit global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. We turn to economists...

[ Harvard Gazette ]...The panel, titled “Dialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies,” featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project...

[ The Boston Globe ] Robert Lawrence and Robert Stavins: For many years, negotiators at the annual conferences of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change looked longingly at how the World Trade Organization was able to negotiate...

[ The Boston Globe ]..."This is a very important time in the history of the negotiations," says Stavins. "More importantly, it’s a very important time in the history of attempts to deal with the problem of global climate change."