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7 Questions About the 'Three Amigos' Energy Deal

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[ ClimateWire ]...So what exactly is an "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidy? The definition depends on the country, according to Joseph Aldy, an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. G-20 countries likely...

Tackling Carbon Emissions in China

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[ Harvard Gazette ]... JORGENSON: This carbon-trading program will cover less than half of the total carbon emissions in China. So one of the issues that came up again and again in this symposium was what do we do about the other half? It turned out there...

2016 Placements for Recently-Graduated Fellows

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Three Harvard Environmental Economics Program Pre-Doctoral Fellows, who graduated in May 2016, have accepted new positions: Trisha Shrum will become a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Earth Lab in Boulder, Colorado. Samuel Stolper will...

HEEP Fellow Named President of RFF

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Former HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Richard Newell was named the next president of Resources for the Future (RFF) on May 23, 2016. RFF, in Washington, D.C., is one of the world’s leading institutions conducting economic research and analysis to improve...

HEEP Awards Student Prizes for 2015-2016 Academic Year

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CAMBRIDGE, MA – The Harvard Environmental Economics Program has, for the seventh consecutive year, awarded three prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or natural-resource economics...

New Handbook from HEEP Pre-Doctoral Alumni

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Suzi Kerr and Ruben Lubowski, both former HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellows, led teams from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), respectively, to produce a major new handbook for designing emissions trading systems...

Cuicui Chen Awarded Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award

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HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Cuicui Chen received the 2016 Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award to pursue research in the social sciences. The award is sponsored by the Henry A. Murray Research Archive at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative...

Subsidies in the Wrong Places Skew Reneweable Energy’s Power

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[ The New York Times ] Joseph Aldy: Renewable power has experienced tremendous growth: Wind and solar’s share of total U.S. power generation increased to 5 percent in 2015 from less than 0.5 percent in 2005. This growth reflects both innovation driving...