Robert N. Stavins
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Chair, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group
Chairman, Ph.D. Programs in Public Policy and Political Economy & Government
Co-Chair, Kennedy School-Harvard Business School Joint Degree Programs
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Contact:
Telephone: (617) 495-1820
Fax: (617) 496-3783
Email: robert_stavins@harvard.edu
Website: http://www.stavins.com
Publications: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~rstavins/cvweb.html
November 2007
Linking Tradable Permit Systems for Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Opportunities, Implications, and Challenges
Report
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and Judson Jaffe
"With tradable permit systems for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in place in some parts of the world and actively being considered in others, increasing attention has been given to the opportunity to link these systems. Linking occurs when the government that maintains one system allows regulated entities to use allowances or credits from another system to meet domestic compliance obligations."
November 15, 2007
"Beyond Kyoto: Getting Serious About Global Climate Change"
Presentation
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Project Co-Director Robert N. Stavins spoke at a Special Session of the World Energy Congress entitled "Architectures for Agreement: Climate Change Policy Post 2012" on November 15, 2007, in Rome, Italy.
November 13, 2007
"Beyond Kyoto: Getting Serious About Global Climate Change"
Presentation
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Project Co-Director Robert N. Stavins addressed the University of Warsaw's Department of Economics on November 13, 2007. His presentation on post-2012 climate change policy described both the global climate policy challenge and the U.S. climate policy outlook.
October 2007
"A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change"
Working Paper
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
In a paper commissioned by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, Stavins, the co-director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements (HPICA) proposes "a specific cap-and-trade system with several key features including: an upstream cap on CO2 emissions with gradual inclusion of other greenhouse gases; a gradual downward trajectory of emissions ceilings over time to minimize disruption and allow firms and households time to adapt; and mechanisms to reduce cost uncertainty."
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.
September 27, 2007
"Linking Tradable Permit Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications"
Presentation
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Professor Stavins' presentation at the 7th IETA Forum on the State and Development of the Greenhouse Gas Market described tradable permit systems and linkage among them that allows emission reduction efforts to be redistributed across systems. He notes that linkage may become the de jure or de facto post-2012 international policy architecture.
September 24, 2007
"Designing the Next International Climate Agreement"
Op-Ed, RFF Weekly Policy Commentary
By Joseph E. Aldy, Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The world's first step to address global climate change, in the Kyoto Protocol, was not perfect. The next step does not need to be perfect either, but it ought to be an improvement. To contribute to the effort in designing the next step, we have just launched the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. This initiative will draw upon leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and non-governmental organizations from around the world to identify key design elements and construct a small set of promising policy frameworks, and then disseminate and discuss the design elements and frameworks with decisionmakers in the United States, Europe, and around the world.
September 17, 2007
NBER New Program on Environmental and Energy Economics
Press Release
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has launched 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, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Kennedy School, and Martin Weitzman, Professor of Economics.
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."
2007
"Environmental Law and Policy"
Book Chapter
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
From The Handbook of Law and Economics, this chapter provides an economic perspective of environmental law and policy with regard to both normative and positive dimensions. The chapter examines in detail the means of environmental policy, that is, the choice of specific policy instruments, beginning with an examination of potential criteria for assessing alternative instruments, with particular focus on cost-effectiveness. Finally, the chapter turns to the question of how environmental responsibility is and should be allocated among the various levels of government.
