Robert N. Stavins

December 3-9, 2007

"Poland's Place, Post-Kyoto"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Warsaw Business Journal, issue 48

By Mladen Petrov and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

"Poland is of great importance, and curbing greenhouse gas, particularly carbon dioxide emissions, will be a very great challenge, because of the rapidly growing economy and the very high reliance on coal."

July/August 2007

"What is the Future of U.S. Coal?"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, The Environmental Forum, issue 4, volume 24

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

"The competitiveness of coal-fired generation diminishes as the stringency of an emissions cap increases."

June 2007

"A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, The Economist's Voice, issue 3, volume 4

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Robert Stavins and Sheila Olmstead propose ways to modify the Kyoto Protocol for its second commitment period (2012–2016) so that it will provide a way forward that is scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic.

April 28, 2003

Taking Fish to Market; Why Not Trade Fishing Rights Like Pollution Credits?

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Forbes

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

UN Climate Talks Photo

December 13, 2010

What Happened (and Why): An Assessment of the Cancun Agreements

Media Feature

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

The international climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, have concluded, and despite the gloom-and-doom predictions that dominated the weeks and months leading up to Cancun, the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must be judged a success.  It represents a set of modest steps forward.  Nothing more should be expected from this process.

Courtesy of E&ETV

October 4, 2007

"Resources for the Future (RFF) Panel Analyzes Alternative Proposals for Post-Kyoto Strategy"

Media Feature

By Joseph E. Aldy, Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Todd Stern and David W. Conover

How should a post-2012 international climate policy be structured? During E&ETV Event Coverage of a recent Resources for the Future discussion, panelists analyze alternative strategies to a post-Kyoto policy.

Photo by Zinnia Mukherjee

January 8, 2010

Harvard Project Director Robert Stavins is Inducted as a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

News

By Beth Maclin, Former Communications Assistant, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Harvard Kennedy School's Professor Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and a member of the Belfer Center's board of directors, was inducted as a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) on January 4, 2010.

AP Photo

Spring 2010

"Scholars' Views Vary on Copenhagen Successes"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

By Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

"Belfer Center participants in the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (UNFCCC) agreed that while the summit did not produce the treaty most wanted, it did make some significant progress. They disagree, however, on how much. Professors Jeffrey Frankel, Kelly Sims Gallagher, and Robert Stavins, all members of the Belfer Center Board of Directors, offer their takeaways from the event."

March 7, 2013

"The Sordid History of Congressional Acceptance and Rejection of Cap-and-Trade: Implications for Climate Policy"

Op-Ed, Vox

By Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Not so long ago, cap-and-trade mechanisms for environmental protection were popular in Congress. Now, such mechanisms are denigrated. What happened? This column tells the sordid tale of how conservatives in Congress who once supported cap and trade now lambast climate change legislation as 'cap-and-tax'. Ironically, conservatives are choosing to demonise their own market-based creation. The successful conservative campaign that disparaged cap-and-trade means it may now be politically impossible to promote it in the US. The good news? Elsewhere, cap and trade is now a proven, viable option for tackling large-scale environmental problems.

March 1, 2013

"Is Obama's Climate Change Policy Doomed to Fail? Maybe Not"

Op-Ed, PBS NEWSHOUR

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

"...[T]here will be actions having significant implications for U.S. CO2 emissions. The big difference is that most will not be called 'climate policy' and virtually all will be within the regulatory and executive-order domain, not new legislation. Will this set of actions and developments put the U.S. on a path to the long-term Waxman-Markey target of an 83 percent reduction below 2005 by 2050? Of course not. For that, a meaningful legislated, economy-wide, national carbon pricing regime will be necessary."