EVENTS
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.
Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City: Sustainable Mega-Cities, Mexico City's "Plan Verde"
Special Event
Open to the Public - Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St.
November 12, 2009
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Related Project: Environment and Natural Resources
Please join us for a special address by Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City
Sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Harvard University Center for the Envrionment and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
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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.
Policy Redesign Recommendations for Solving Financial Bottlenecks in Demand Side Management Activities in China
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 19, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Yongzhen Yu, Visiting Scholar, ETIP
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Environment and Natural Resources, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Demand Side Management (DSM) is one of the best and most practical policy tools for China to balance environmental protection and economic growth. U.S. experience, especially the cases of California and Vermont, offers inspiration for further progress in DSM of China. China was first introduced to the concept of DSM in the early 1990s, but the picture is very uneven and there is no clear policy for its broad uptake. In general, the bottleneck for expediting of DSM is the lack of long-term, stable, sufficient and gradually increasing funds to flow into DSM projects. The author redesigns the practical surcharge policy which will provide long-term and stable funding for DSM, the policy to facilitate the financial support from banking sector and capital market, and investigates the possibility of DSM funding from Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.
Coal Supply and Cost Under Technological and Environmental Uncertainty
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 5, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Melissa Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Environment and Natural Resources, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Conventional U.S. energy planning presumes a ready supply of cheap coal and assumes that mining will continue as it has in the past - in shallow and thick seams. However, as these accessible resources are depleted, thin and deep seams will comprise our remaining resource. It will become more expensive and environmentally damaging to extract coal. This talk discusses future U.S. coal availability, resource estimate reliability, potential environmental damage and technologies to extract it in a more responsible manner.
The Early Cost of Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Seminar
Open to the Public - Fainsod Room, Littauer-324
April 28, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Mohammed Al-Juaied, Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Environment and Natural Resources, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Al-Juaied will review the economics of CCS, based on recent cost studies and actual project data.
