Mailing address
Belfer 507
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 83
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Robert C. Stowe
Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-4265
Fax: 617-496-3783
Email: robert_stowe@harvard.edu
Experience
Robert C. Stowe is Executive Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Manager of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, both University-wide programs based in the Harvard Kennedy School. From December 2003 through June 2009, he was Associate Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, in the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Rob has worked in non-profit, academic, and business organizations, including as Vice President of Programs of the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, which provides assistance in agriculture and agribusiness to developing countries, and Human Factors International, one of the world's leading firms in the field of software and Web usability. He has consulted to the World Bank and other organizations on agricultural management projects in Uganda, Russia, and Ukraine. Rob holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. in physics from Harvard College.
(Jaimee Haddad Photo)
Spring 2013
"Climate Conference Moves Forward – Slowly"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
In December, the member nations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Doha, Qatar for the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) to discuss climate change on a global level. The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements co-hosted, with the government of Qatar, an event entitled "After Doha: Balancing Adaptation, Mitigation, and Economic Development."
Jaimee Haddad Photos
December 20, 2012
Harvard Project Conducts Special Event at COP-18 with Government of Qatar
News
By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements co-hosted, with the government of the State of Qatar, a special high-level event at the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha on December 6, 2012. The event was titled "After Doha: Balancing Adaptation, Mitigation, and Economic Development." Participants addressed, at a high level, the state of international climate regimes and prospects for progress over the next several years.
Robert Stowe Photo
December 13, 2012
Harvard Project Conducts Highly Successful Side-Event at COP-18
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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted an official side-event at the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar on December 3, 2012. The event was titled "Market Mechanisms in a Post-Durban International Climate Regime." Participants assessed the design and potential role of "new market mechanisms" (NMM) in the Kyoto Protocol second commitment period, Copenhagen/Cancun regime, and a new arrangement arising from the Durban-Platform process.
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February 16, 2012
"Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Hosts Chinese Climate Change Study Tour"
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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted, on January 10, 2012, a study tour of Chinese officials working in climate and energy policy. The tour was organized by the World Resources Institute's China office. The study tour and several members of the Harvard faculty discussed options and prospects for international policy to address global climate change.
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January 2012
The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
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By Gabe Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and Richard Sweeney
The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. Ironically, cap and trade seems especially well suited to addressing the problem of climate change, in that emitted greenhouse gases are evenly distributed throughout the world's atmosphere. Recent hostility toward cap and trade in debates about U.S. climate legislation may reflect the broader political environment of the climate debate more than the substantive merits of market-based regulation.
November 2011
New Book from Former Harvard Environmental Economics Program Pre-Doctoral Fellow Gernot Wagner on Effective Environmental Economic Policy
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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The core message of But Will the Planet Notice?—presented with both rigor and wit—is that the actions of individuals can do very little to solve major environment problems, including climate change, species preservation, and water scarcity. What's required is economic policy that motivates large portions of the population—and major industrial sectors—to reduce pollution and use resources more efficiently.
Benjamin Kriemann/IPCC
August 2011
HPCA Director, Affiliates Participate in IPCC Process
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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and Harvard Environmental Economics Program, joined colleagues in Changwon, Republic of Korea in mid-July to begin preparing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Fifth Assessment Report ("AR5"). The IPCC is the intergovernmental organization dedicated to compiling the most rigorous natural and social-scientific research on climate change; the IPCC Assessment Reports are the scientific gold standard in this field.
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January 6, 2010
Harvard Project Conducts Side-Event, High-Level Meetings at COP-16
Media Feature
By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted an official side-event at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico, on December 8, 2010. The session was titled "Institutions for International Climate Governance."
Photo by Don Pollard
June 2010
Robert Stavins Conducts Seminar at International Peace Institute in New York
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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements conducted a seminar hosted and organized by the International Peace Institute in New York City on June 21, 2010. His talk, entitled "Climate Change Policy after Copenhagen," addressed the outcomes of COP-15 in Copenhagen, the institutional context of international climate policy, and prospects for domestic climate policy in the United States.
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Spring 2010
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Conducts Research Workshop in Venice, Italy
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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
On May 21, 2010, The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements convened the International Research Workshop on Institutions for Global Governance—a research workshop at which leading scholars examined the institutional context of international climate change policy.
