2016

[ The New York Times ] Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein: Last week, Donald J. Trump’s transition team sent a startling questionnaire to the Department of Energy. Among other things, the questionnaire asked for the names of all employees and...

HEEP Faculty Fellow Joe Lassiter explains in a TED talk video the importance of pursuing new nuclear options to reduce carbon emissions, while at the same time lifting people in the developing world out of poverty. Lassiter argues that investment in new...

[ The New York Times ]...“The good news is that on its own, the U.S. economy has become less carbon intensive, and that trend will continue overall,” said Robert N. Stavins, the director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University. The...

HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow alum Hunt Allcott has been granted tenure as an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University. Professor Allcott is an applied microeconomist who studies topics in environmental and energy economics, industrial...

[ NPR radio interview with Robert N. Stavins] Delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Morocco this week to work out how to implement the Paris Climate Agreement. That's the historic accord under which countries including the U.S. pledged to limit...

[Robert Stavins' blog] Those of you who have read my previous essay at this blog, “ This is Not a Time for Political Neutrality” (October 9, 2016), know that my greatest concerns about a Trump presidency (then a possibility, now a certainty), were not...

[ The New York Times ] Robert N. Stavins: Donald J. Trump once tweeted that “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.” Twitter messages may not be clear signs of likely public...

[ The Sacramento Bee ] Lawrence Goulder and Robert Stavins: This is a critical time for California’s climate policies. Recently, Gov. Jerry Brown achieved his hope of extending California’s action beyond 2020, the termination date of Assembly Bill 32...

[ NPR ]...CURWOOD: So, what are the key elements of Secretary Clinton's climate and energy platform? ALDY: Well, I think the first thing is that she recognizes climate change as a serious threat, that it's important that we bring resources to deal with...

[ Harvard Gazette ]... Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, was awarded funding for a project called “Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: International Cooperation in East Asia.” The project will build on previous...