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Robert Stavins was quoted in the November 19, 2008 edition of EurActiv.com Obama: US commited to 'strong' climate targets. Robert Stavins was quoted in the November 19, 2008 edition of the Greenwire. NATIONS: Obama's 4-minute speech invigorates int'l negotiations. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was quoted in the November 18, 2008 edition of the Greenwire. REGULATION: Not fearing feds, regions continue building carbon caps. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was quoted in the November 18, 2008 edition of the Greenwire. EMISSIONS: Industrial nations' greenhouse gases rose between 2000 and 2006. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins authored an Op-Ed in the November 12, 2008 edition of the Boston Globe. Inspiration for climate change. Robert Stavins was quoted in the November 6, 2008 edition of the Boston Globe. Bay State already on path to clean, renewable energy. Robert Stavins was quoted in the October 14, 2008 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Carbon Cordon. Robert Stavins was quoted in the September 30, 2008 edition of Greenwire States: Carbon auction is a success, but will emissions drop?. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was quoted in the September 30, 2008 article on Bloomberg.com Carbon Credits Auctioned. Robert Stavins was quoted in the September 29, 2008 article on ScienceNow. Bells Ring for First U.S. Carbon Auction. Robert Stavins was quoted in the September 29, 2008 article on Bloomberg.com First U.S. Carbon Dioxide Permits Sell for $3.07/Ton. Robert Stavins was quoted in the September 23, 2008 article on Bloomberg.com Air Pollution Market Debut Tests Cap-and-Trade Model. Robert Stavins was quoted in the September 09, 2008 edition of Greenwire CAMPAIGN 2008: Biden seen as primed to play leading role in post-Kyoto climate talks. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was quoted in the July 31, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal on support in the Senate for a Cap-and-Trade based internatinoal climate change regime. Trade Talks' Failure Weighs on Other Issues. Robert Stavins comments on emissions allowances and the potential for emissions trading scheme linkages between the European Union and the United States in a ClimateWire Article: Markets: Increasing use of coal in Europe drives up the price of CO2 emissions trades. (subscription required). The Harvard Environmental Economics Program was mentioned in the June 22, 2008 edition of The Washington Post. Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude. Robert Stavins was quoted in the June 8th, 2008 edition of St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the costs associated with addressing global climate change. Global Warming: Numbers game confounds debate. Robert Stavins was quoted in the June 2nd, 2008 edition of The New York Times. Industries Allied to Cap Carbon Differ on the Details. Hunt Allcott, a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the recipient of a Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship with Resources for the Future (RFF), a Washington, D.C.- based environmental think tank. While at RFF, Hunt will complete his research on energy demand, including household electricity usage and the response of the American auto industry to changes in corporate average fuel economy standards. Robert Stavins was quoted in a May 16th, 2008 article from Reuters. The article, entitled "Complex Climate Treaty Challenges Experts," features a brief summary of a recent academic workshop in Venice, Italy, co-hosted by The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 18th, 2008 edition of USA Today. Environmentalists Hope for Progress with New President. Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 18th, 2008 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. Bush's Climate Goals Vague--But a Start. Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 17th, 2008 edition of The Los Angeles Times. President Bush Offers Goals to Fight Climate Change. Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 10, 2008 edition of ClimateWire. Can the Senate sidestep a 67-vote climate treaty ratification?. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 2, 2008 edition of ClimateWire. Prospect of 'gap' worries climate change negotiators. (Subscription Required) The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements' March research workshop, Workshop ponders: Post-Kyoto, What Next? was featured in an online edition of the Harvard Gazette, March 20th 2008. Robert Stavins co-authored an op-ed in the March 16th, 2008 edition of the Sacramento Bee. The article, entitled, Lawrence Goulder and Robert Stavins: State fight against climate change benefits everyone, applauds California's passage of Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. Robert Stavins was quoted in the March 13, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Economist Strikes Gold in Climate-Change Fight Robert Stavins and Joseph Aldy were quoted in the March 11, 2008 edition of ClimateWire. Congress: Behind 'safety valve' debate resides 30+ years of history. (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was featured in the March 3, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal. McCain's Economy Platform: Big Tax Cuts, With Caveats Robert Stavins was recently profiled in Upstream. The article discusses Stavins' work as Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. This article was originally published in Upstream on 18 January 2008, and is protected by copyright. Two former HEEP pre-doctoral fellows, both of whom have gone on to become professors at Yale University, Nathaniel Keohane (Ph.D. Political Economy and Government, 2001) and Sheila Olmstead (Ph.D. Public Policy, 2002), have just published their co-authored book, Markets and the Environment (Island Press, 2007). A cover quote by HEEP Director, Professor Robert Stavins, describes the book: "Two of the world's leading young environmental economists offer a concise, balanced, and highly accessible treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of contemporary scholarship. Here is a book that will serve both as a superb text for an introductory course and an entertaining and effective introduction for a solo reader who wishes to learn about this growing field of inquiry." Project Co-Directors Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, along with Carlo Carraro of the University of Venice and Resources for the Future's William Pizer, spoke at a Project-sponsored side event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. More information on the event can be found here. The Presentation given at the Bali COP was entitled, "Architectures for Agreement: Issues and Options for Post-2012 International Climate Change Policy" Carraro's presentation from the side-event was entitled, "Climate Policy in the Post-Kyoto World. Incentives, Institutions and Equity" Pizer's presentation was entitled, "Why start with a bottom-up approach to international climate policy?" Charles Kolstad's public talk entitled, "Climate Change: is economics the source of the problem or the key to the solution?" was featured in the Harvard Crimson's Dec. 4th synopsis of the event "Ec. Prof Leads Climate Change Talk" Robert Stavins was featured in the December 3, 2007 edition of The Warsaw Business Journal Poland's Place, post-Kyoto Robert Stavins was quoted in the December 3, 2007 Greenwire article "Climate: Expectations Low as Bali Talks Begin" (Subscription Required) Robert Stavins was quoted in the December 1, 2007 Wall Street Journal article "Bali Talks Aim to Set Path for Post-Kyoto Pact" (Subscription Required to View) Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Co-Directors Robert Stavins and Joseph Aldy were featured in the journal, Nature, Vol. 450, in an article entitled, "Climate Politics: Beyond Bush" The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is launching, in fall 2007, a new “Program on Environmental and Energy Economics.” Martin Feldstein, NBER President, has announced the election of six new NBER Research Associates as part of the program, including two Faculty Fellows of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP): Robert Stavins and Martin Weitzman. The other newly appointed NBER Research Associates are Maureen Cropper (World Bank), Charles Kolstad (University of California, Santa Barbara), Matthew Kahn (University of California, Los Angeles), and Kerry Smith (Arizona State University). Fifty-four other NBER Research Associates are also affiliated with the new program, including HEEP Faculty Fellows David Bloom and Richard Zeckhauser. The program is directed by Professor Don Fullerton of the University of Texas. More information is available at: Robert Stavins was quoted in the May 17, 2007 New York Times article "Energy Standards Needed, Report Says" Nathaniel Keohane, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management, is leaving Yale to become Director of Economic Policy and Analysis, Environmental Defense, in New York City. Nat received his Ph.D. Robyn Meeks has been awarded the 2007 Vicki Norberg Bohm Fellowship by the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the KSG. Her project is titled "Investigations into integrated water resource management and development: Linkages between local, national and international levels." Robert Stavins was quoted in the March 7, 2007 New York Times article "A Coal Executive With a Cleanup Mission" Robert Stavins' work on water-efficiency improvements cited in a February 2, 2007 High Country News article on "The Efficiency Paradox: Why water conservation along the Colorado River — a much-vaunted silver bullet for the West’s coming era of shortage — could have devastating environmental costs." PDF version of High Country News article. On February 6th, 2007, it was announced that Enel, the Italian energy company, has made a gift of $5 million to establish The Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics. This endowment will allow EEPHU, which will be renamed as the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, to substantially expand its research efforts. On January 23rd, 2007, Professor Robert Stavins was interviewed in a BBC article on President Bush's energy policy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6288957.stm |
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