RESEARCH PROJECTS
Robert N. Stavins, Director
The goal of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is to help identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. To achieve this goal, the Harvard Project is supporting twenty-seven research initiatives by leading thinkers from the United States, Europe, China, India, Japan, and Australia. Papers reporting the results of this research will be disseminated and discussed with decision-makers around the world. A list of the research initiatives follows.
I. Alternative International Policy Architectures
• Towards a Global Compact for Managing Climate Change
Ramgopal Agarwala, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi
• A Portfolio System of Climate Treaties
Scott Barrett, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
• The Case for Charges on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Richard Cooper, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• EU Emission Trading Scheme: A Prototype Global System?
A. Denny Ellerman, MIT Sloan School of Management
Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard Kennedy School
• Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture
Judson Jaffe, Analysis Group and Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School
• A Proposal for the Design of the Successor to the Kyoto Protocol
Larry Karp, University of California, Berkeley, and Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University
• A Sectoral Approach as an Option for a New Post-Kyoto Framework
Akihiro Sawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
II. Key Elements in an International Policy Architecture
A. Assessing Targets and Goals
Carolyn Fischer and Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future
Eric Posner, University of Chicago School of Law and Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School
B. The Role and Means of Technology Transfer
Andrew Keeler, John Glenn School of Public Affairs and Alexander Thompson, Ohio State University
• International Climate Technology Strategies
Richard Newell, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
• Possible Development of a Technology Clean Development Mechanism in a Post-2012 Regime
Fei Teng, Wenying Chen, and Jiankan He, Tsinghua University, Beijing
C. Including Deforestation in a Global Climate Policy
• International Forest Carbon Sequestration in a Post-Kyoto Agreement
Andrew Plantinga, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Oregon, State University; Kenneth Richards, School of Environmental and Public Affairs, Indiana University
D. Compliance Mechanisms
• Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Change Architecture: A Political Analysis
Robert Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Kal Raustiala, UCLA School of Law
III. Important Issues in the Development of International Policy Architecture
A. Negotiation Process
• How to Negotiate and Update Climate Agreements
• The Dynamics of Climate Negotiations
Bård Harstad, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B. Economic Development, Adaptation, and International Climate Policy
Jing Cao, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Policies for Developing Country Engagement
Daniel S. Hall & William A. Pizer, Resources for the Future; Michael Levi, Council on Foreign Relations, and Takahiro Ueno, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo
• What Do We Expect from an International Climate Agreement? A Perspective from a Low-income Country
E. Somanathan, Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
David Victor, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
C. Global Climate Policy and International Trade
• Global Environmental Policy and Global Trade Policy
Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard Kennedy School
IV. Modeling Impacts of Alternative Allocations of Responsibility
• Revised Emissions Growth Projections for China: Why Post-Kyoto Climate Policy Must Look East
Geoffrey J. Blanford and Richard G. Richels, Global Climate Change Research Program, Electric Power Research Institute; Thomas Rutherford, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, Massimo Tavoni; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Italy
• Technology and International Climate Policy
Leon Clarke, Kate Calvin, James A. Edmonds, Page Kyle, and Marshall Wise; Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University of Maryland
• Sharing the Burden of GHG Reductions
Henry D. Jacoby, Mustafa H. Babiker, Sergey Paltsev, and John M. Reilly, MIT
• Expecting the Unexpected: Macroeconomic Volatility and Climate Policy
Warwick J. McKibbin, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University; Adele Morris, The Brookings Institution; and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Sponsors of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Major funding for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements has been provided by a grant from the Climate Change Initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by Christopher P. Kaneb (Harvard AB 1990); the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation; Paul Josefowitz (Harvard AB 1974, MBA 1977) and Nicholas Josefowitz (Harvard AB 2005); the Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics at Harvard University; the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School; and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Project Website: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/climate
Project email: climate@harvard.edu
