2023

CAMBRIDGE MA. – Amy Harder , the founding Executive Editor of the climate policy publication Cipher News , expressed her pleasant surprise with several outcomes from the recent 28th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on...

CAMBRIDGE MA. – With 28th Conference of the Parties (COP 28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change well underway, Jonathan Banks , the global director of the Methane Pollution Prevention Program at the Clean Air Task Force (CATF)...

CAMBRIDGE MA. – With the start of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP 28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change just days away, environmental economist Nat Keohane is expressing optimism that the new global stocktake will...

CAMBRIDGE MA. – Economic historian Emma Rothschild , the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard , lauded the efforts of young scholars to discover local solutions to mitigate the impacts of global climate change in the latest episode of “...

CAMBRIDGE MA. – Michael Toffel , Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), discussed the many ways in which businesses and governments can and are working together...

Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) Director Robert Stavins , the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School , has been named an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large (ADW-PAL) at Cornell University, an...

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University launched today a major research and outreach initiative to reduce global methane emissions . The initiative seeks meaningful and sustained progress in global methane-emissions...

CAMBRIDGE MA. – Energy and resource economist Meredith Fowlie spoke about the complex regulatory challenges and ‘just transition’ dynamics of climate policy in the latest episode of “ Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the...

HEEP director Rob Stavins spoke with Noelle Lim of the ASEAN Speaks podcast to discuss COP28, the realities of climate talks, and what could take centrestage, and the progress of the loss and damage fund. Listen below. Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts...

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) has awarded three prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or natural-resource economics – one prize each...