John P. Holdren
Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
1995
"The Meaning of Sustainability: Biogeophysical Aspects"
Book Chapter
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Paul R. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily
Chapter presents analytical framework for the book, which examinesapproaches to more precisely characterizing "sustainability."
Summer 2007
"Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector"
Discussion Paper
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Gustavo Collantes, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group/Enviroment and Natural Resources Program, 2007-2008, John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
The goal of this paper is to contribute to the current policy debate about how to effectively limit or reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector.
April, 1998
Getting to Zero: Is Pursuing a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Too Difficult? Too Dangerous? Too Distracting?
Discussion Paper
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
John P. Holdren sorts out some of the conceptual and terminological ambiguities about the meaning of "zero" nuclear weapons in this paper.
March 31, 2008
"Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Discuss Energy and Environment–Related Challenges for China and the World"
Event Report
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Harvard Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood and HKS faculty John P. Holdren and Kelly Gallagher participated in a panel discussion on "The Challenge of Energy and Environment in China" in Shanghai, China.
February 2007
U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database
Fact Sheet
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Ambuj D. Sagar, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Diane Segal, Paul de Sa, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1999-2000 and John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database: a database in Microsoft Excel format tracking budget requests on energy-technology research, development, and demonstraton (RD&D) from 1978–2008, including charts.
February 2006
"DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database"
Fact Sheet
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Ambuj D. Sagar, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Diane Segal, Paul de Sa, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1999-2000 and John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database: a database in Microsoft Excel format tracking budget requests on energy-technology research, development, and demonstraton (RD&D) from 1978 - 2007, including charts.
June 2004
"U.S. Government Investments in Energy Innovation Database"
Fact Sheet
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Ambuj D. Sagar, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Diane Segal, Paul de Sa, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1999-2000 and John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database: a database in Microsoft Excel format tracking budget requests on energy-technology research, development, and demonstraton (RD&D) from 1978–2004, including charts.
AP Photo
Fall 2009
"Energy for Change: Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy & Climate Change"
Journal Article, Innovations, issue 4, volume 4
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
"Without energy, there is no economy. Without climate, there is no environment. Without economy and environment, there is no material well-being, no civil society, no personal or national security. The overriding problem associated with these realities, of course, is that the world has long been getting most of the energy its economies need from fossil fuels whose emissions are imperiling the climate that its environment needs."
January 25, 2008
"Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being"
Journal Article, Science, issue 5862, volume 319
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
"I would urge every scientist and engineer with an interest in the intersection of S&T with sustainable well-being...to 'tithe' 10% of your professional time and effort to working in these and other ways to increase the benefits of S&T for the human condition and to decrease the liabilities. If so much as a substantial fraction of the world's scientists and engineers resolved to do this much, the acceleration of progress toward sustainable well-being for all of Earth's inhabitants would surprise us all."
January / February 2007
"The Sky Is Falling"
Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (Special Issue: Five Minutes to Midnight), issue 1, volume 63
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
An interview with John P. Holdren in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in the magazine's Five Minutes to Midnight issue.
