EVENTS
Wind Energy: Which Way Does the Media Wind Blow?
Seminar
Open to the Public - Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th Floor
February 16, 2011
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Moderator: Alex Jones, Director, Shorenstein Center, Henry Lee, Discussant, Director, ENRP
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
Speakers: Environment reporters Beth Daley,The Boston Globe and Elisabeth Rosenthal,The New York Times.
Join us for the first event in our 2011 spring seminar series, "Clean Energy and the Media."
Open to the community. Light lunch provided.
Techno-Optimism or Pessimism? "Fixing" the Planet's Climate Problems
Seminar
Open to the Public - Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
March 31, 2010
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Moderator: Cristine Russell, Matthew Bunn, Discussant
Related Projects: Environment and Natural Resources, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Speakers: Bryan Walsh, environment reporter for Time Magazine; Jeff Goodell, author of "How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate"
Last in a spring seminar series on "Climate Change & the Media," sponsored by the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy.
This seminar will focus on the role of the media in communicating about new clean energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as controversial proposals, such as geoengineering, to 'fix' the climate change problem through technology. The seminar will look at ways to improve the public dialogue over climate change and technology.
Climate Policy and Politics: Covering Conflict in the Capital, Copenhagen and Beyond
Seminar
Open to the Public - Nye B, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
March 4, 2010
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
Join us at our spring seminar series on "Climate Change & the Media," sponsored by the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Speakers: Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post; Eric Pooley, Bloomberg Business Week
The Public Divide over Climate Change: Science, Skeptics and the Media
Seminar
Open to the Public - Nye B, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
February 4, 2010
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Moderator: Cristine Russell
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
Join us for our new spring seminar series on "Climate Change & the Media," sponsored by the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Speakers: Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times "Dot Earth" blogger; Matthew Nisbet, American University School of Communication assistant professor; Discussant, Professor Thomas E. Patterson, HKS Shorenstein Center.
Getting Serious About Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto Era
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
November 17, 2009
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert N. Stavins
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
Robert N. Stavins. Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; and Chairman, Environment & Natural Resources Faculty Group, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), the Asia Center, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and the Energy and Natural Resources Program (ENRP), the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Transit: Mexico City’s Metrobus
Seminar
Open to the Public - Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
November 12, 2009
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
The winners of the 2009 Roy Award for Environmental Partnership, the Mexico City Metrobus, will discuss the innovative Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system that reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, while improving the quality of life and transportation options in Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world.
This seminar is a unique opportunity to learn how a successful public private partnership is successfully planned, developed and managed from the perspective of the organizations that made it happen.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Climate Governance
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - CES, 27 Kirkland Street
October 19, 2009
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert N. Stavins
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
Lectures and discussion on Transatlantic Perspectives on Climate Governance with speakers Claus Leggewie, KWI Essen; Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University
Managing the Atom "Nuclear 101" seminar on Uranium Enrichment and Plutonium Production
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
June 30, 2009
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Matthew Sharp, Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez
Related Projects: Managing the Atom, Environment and Natural Resources, International Security
Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez and Matthew Sharp, MTA / ISP Post-Doctoral Research Fellows will present a Managing the Atom "Nuclear 101" seminar on Uranium Enrichment and Plutonium Production on Tuesday June 30, 2009 at 10am.
All are welcome and invited to attend.
Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
June 10, 2009
10:30-12:00 p.m.
Speaker: W. Ross Morrow, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Environment and Natural Resources
U.S. transportation policy is changing rapidly, motivated by concerns over climate change and energy security. Not only are economy-wide CO2 prices expected to soon be in place, but increasingly stringent performance-based standards are being proposed. Using the National Energy Modeling System, the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group has analyzed the impact of economy-wide CO2 prices in combination with transportation sector specific policy options including transportation (fuel) taxes, extended fuel economy standards, and performance-based tax credits. The results suggest that the policy options currently considered will fail to meet the "17% of 2005" GHG emissions reduction target in the Waxman-Markey Bill, or even the Obama administration's "14% of 2005" GHG emissions target. Economy-wide CO2 prices motivate large reductions in CO2 emissions from the electrical power sector but do not, on their own, result in significant reductions in CO2 emissions from transportation. Transportation taxes appear to be the most effective option for reducing GHG emissions, largely because they reduce vehicle use in addition to improving vehicle technology. On the other hand, tax credits for alternative-fuel vehicles appear to be an expensive and ineffective path to reducing CO2 emissions from transportation.
Beverages will be provided. Please come ready to discuss...
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International Developments in Policy to Stimulate CCS & Other Low-carbon Power Generation: A Project Developer's Perspective
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 21, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Adam Whitmore, Chief Economist, Hydrogen Energy International
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Environment and Natural Resources
Policymakers around the world are stepping up their efforts to stimulate deployment of low carbon technologies, including CCS. Policies include carbon pricing, tax incentives, feed-in-tariffs, tradable green certificates schemes, and may others. What can be learned from experience to date in different countries and the policies which are now being introduced? The seminar will include a review of policy measures in the North America, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere and consider how these might be developed in the future to most effectively meet the challenge of decarbonizing the world's economy. The seminar will also highlight the size of the challenge facing policymakers by examining two examples of developed economies that have adopted challenging targets (California and the UK) and the implications of this for the scale and timing of policy initiatives.
