HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Sarah Armitage has been awarded a fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Candidates for the fellowship are assessed for their potential to make an important contribution to important questions in energy economics and are chosen based on recommendations from a selection panel co-chaired by Meredith Fowlie (University of California, Berkeley) and Ryan Kellogg (University of Chicago). Fellowship recipients pursue academic research...

CAMBRIDGE MA. – Andrei Marcu, founder and executive director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition, provided his insights on the UN Climate Change conference taking place in Madrid this week in the newest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program,” a podcast...

By Doug Gavel:
CAMBRIDGE MA – With negotiators from more than 100 countries preparing to gather in Madrid, Spain for the 25^th annual international climate conference in December, attention is focusing on how to build consensus for the accurate accounting of emission reductions. So-called “double counting,” which occurs when two or more parties claim credit for the same emission reductions, could undermine the integrity of the historic...

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) hosted a workshop on September 19 – 20, 2019 for current and former Pre-Doctoral Fellows, featuring 25 research presentations and three professional-development panels. Forty-five current fellows and alumni participated.

HEEP’s Pre-Doctoral...