Robert C. Stowe

Spring 2010

Leading Climate Change Negotiators and Policymakers Visit Harvard Kennedy School

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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

In spring 2010, the Harvard Project hosted events with Ambassador Makio Miyagawa, the deputy head of Japan's delegation to the international climate talks, and Nancy Kontou, the European Commission's former head of cabinet to the Commissioner for Environment, at the Harvard Kennedy School.

April 5, 2010

Harvard Project Holds Discussions in Tokyo and Seoul

Media Feature

By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Robert Stavins, Director, and Robert Stowe, Manager of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements visited Tokyo and Seoul in mid-March to hold high-level discussions on climate change policy with policymakers and scholars. The first stop was Tokyo, where the Japanese Government had released a major draft framework bill on climate change policy only days earlier. The bill would establish a cap-and-trade system in Japan. Professor Stavins and Dr. Stowe met with members of the Japanese parliament, senior staff in the cabinet office, and leading officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economy, Trade, and Industry dealing with domestic and international climate change policy.

Photo by Jason Chapman

October 14, 2009

Harvard Project Conducts Roundtable Workshop in Brussels, Hosted by the European Union Commissioner for Environment

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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

The Harvard Project conducted a roundtable workshop on September 30, 2009, hosted by European Union Commissioner for Environment Stavros Dimas and titled "Post-2012 Climate Change Policy: Insights from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements". Commissioner Dimas and Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project, spoke, respectively, on the status of European Union (EU) and U.S. climate change policy.

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June 16, 2009

Harvard Project Participants Join Obama Administration

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By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

A number of individuals associated with the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements have received appointments in the administration of President Barack Obama. The Project's former Co-Director, Joseph Aldy, is now Special Assistant to the President for Energy and the Environment, reporting to Carol Browner and Lawrence Summers. (Ms. Browner is Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.) Professor Summers (on leave from Harvard) himself was a member of the Harvard Project's Faculty Steering Committee before becoming Director of the National Economic Council in the White House and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Jody Freeman, also a former member of the Harvard Project's Faculty Steering Committee and a Harvard Law School Professor (on leave of absence), is now Counselor for Energy and Climate in the White House, reporting to Carol Browner.

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June 4, 2009

Bonn Climate Negotiations: From the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Announcement

By Sasha Talcott, Former Director of Communications and Outreach and Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

The current negotiations in Bonn, Germany, mark a major step on the road to the next international climate agreement. With the negotiating text now being discussed, the Harvard Project has a wide array of research papers and policy ideas, each condensed into a two-page summary, which may be useful to those working on these issues. We have chosen to highlight some of those most relevant to the Bonn negotiating agenda.

Robert C. Stowe

December 15, 2008

Harvard Project Leadership Presents Key Lessons at Official COP 14 Side-Event

Event Summary

By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

In the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements' official side-event in Poznan, Poland, Professor Robert N. Stavins presented key findings from the project's Interim Report, which synthesizes an extensive research effort conducted by 27 teams of leading experts from developed and developing countries, whose goal is to identify key design principles of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture.

April 16, 2006

"Is Time on the Side of Iraq?"

Op-Ed, New York Times, Letter to the Editor

By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

The following letter was written in response to David Brooks' op-ed "The Past Meets the Future" which appeared in The New York Times on April 13, 2006.

Winter 1987

United States Foreign Policy and the Conservation of Natural Resources: the case of tropical deforestation

Journal Article, Natural Resources Journal, volume 27

By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Assessing the Scientific Strength of Chile

Journal Article, La Revista de Biologia y Medicina Experimentales, volume 24

By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements