Henry Lee

April, 2005

Dawning of a New Era: The LNG Story

Discussion Paper

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

January, 2003

Assessing the Challenges Confronting Distributive Electricity Generation

Discussion Paper

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

What role will distributive electricity technologies play in meeting future demand? Policy makers are divided on the answer.  For some, these technologies represent the foundations from which a decentralized electricity system could be established––one in which small, clean generating systems gradually replace the existing system of large centralized power stations. To others, they represent an alternative to the siting and permitting problems that have plagued the construction of new transmission systems, while simultaneously realizing the high reliability standards required in an era of growing reliance on computing and communication technologies. To others still, distributive generation is seen as simply an economic alternative to meeting power needs. Finally there are skeptics who believe that smaller generators will never be as efficient or cost effective as larger centralized technologies.

June, 2001

"Entering Russia's Power Sector"

Discussion Paper

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

Any international proposal for reducing carbon emissions will require active Russian participation. Russia is the fourth largest emitter of carbon in the world. Its resource base of natural gas is unmatched by any other country, and its energy sector and industry are significant consumers of fossil fuels, and thus major emitters of carbon.

August, 2000

"Coal or Gas: The Cost of Cleaner Power in the Midwest"

Discussion Paper

By Shashi Verma, Former Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

December 1995

"Electricity Restructuring and the Environment"

Discussion Paper

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

Competition may offset many of the environmental shortcomings of the past regulatory regimes, although it is possible that competition will result in older, dirtier coal plants being kept on-line and used more often.

"Summary of Symposium on Health Aspects of Exposure to Asbestos in Buildings"

Discussion Paper

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

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"Designing Domestic Carbon Trading Systems: Key Considerations"

Discussion Paper

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

In the fall of 1998, the US government was divided between those who believed that the nation should agree to substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and those who believed the price tag was too high and the scientific evidence too uncertain.

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March 2010

"Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the US Transportation Sector"

Journal Article, Energy Policy, issue 3, volume 38

By W. Ross Morrow, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2008–2009, 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 and Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

Even as the US debates an economy-wide CO₂ cap-and-trade policy the transportation sector remains a significant oil security and climate change concern. Transportation alone consumes the majority of the US's imported oil and produces a third of total US Greenhouse-Gas (GHG) emissions. This study examines different sector-specific policy scenarios for reducing GHG emissions and oil consumption in the US transportation sector under economy-wide CO₂ prices.

Winter 2008

"Fuel for Thought"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, John F. Kennedy School of Government Bulletin

By Madeline Drexler, Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP

As the Biofuel industry surges with investments and new entrepreneurial players, Kennedy School scholars are analyzing it working to develop new ways to create carbon-neutral fuels. Madeline Drexler writes on the Kennedy School's input on this emerging new way to lower greenhouse gas emissions and become less dependent on non-renewable energy resources.

July 29, 2008

New Report from Harvard Kennedy School Researchers Calls for Changes to Biofuels Incentives

News

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP and Charan Devereaux

Despite pressure from biofuel critics, governments should avoid simplistic and precipitous changes in course such as rollback or moratoria on existing biofuels mandates or incentives, according to a new report from three Harvard Kennedy School researchers. Instead, the researchers urge governments to initiate an orderly, innovation-enhancing transition towards incentives targeted on multi-dimensional goals for biofuels development.