DISCUSSION PAPERS
April 14, 2008
"Addressing Global Climate Change with a Comprehensive U.S. Cap-and-Trade System"
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board
There is a growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. The paper describes and analyzes an up-stream, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade system which implements a gradual trajectory of emissions reductions (with inclusion over time of non-CO2 greenhouse gases), and includes mechanisms to reduce cost uncertainty.
Carsten Karl
Winter 2007/08
"Cleaner Power in India: Towards a Clean-Coal-Technology Roadmap"
By Ananth Chikkatur, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Ambuj Sagar, Senior Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Investigating the role of coal in India's energy sector, Chikkatur and Sagar emphasize the need for a technology roadmapping process. They highlight the interlinkages between technology innovation and public policy and provide an analytical framework to help delineate the kinds of questions that scholars and practitioners need to ask in addressing India's coal sector.
February 7, 2008
Vegetable Oil Based Biofuels in India
This paper addresses two key questions: What is the economic potential of biofuel development in India? And what are the obstacles to this development? It traces the economics at each stage in the production chain – from harvesting to processing to transportation; provides an overview of the industry’s economics and details the requirements at each stage of the value chain for the industry to reach its potential; and shows how the vegetable oil biofuels sector can provide substantial benefits to the rural poor in India while addressing the risks and threats of the biofuel industry development.
Anita Gould
January 2, 2008
"Synthesis of Comments Received on 'Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector'"
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
This paper includes solicited comments from representatives from government, non-profit organizations, the private sector, including from automobile firms and fuels providers, labor unions, and others, to the July 2007 discussion paper on policy options for reducing oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector.
Summer 2007
"Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector"
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Gustavo Collantes, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
The goal of this paper is to contribute to the current policy debate about how to effectively limit or reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector.
March 2007
"A New Energy Paradigm: Ensuring Nuclear Fuel Supply and Nonproliferation through International Collaboration with Insurance and Financial Markets"
By Debra Decker, Associate, International Security Program and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
"Seeking ways to dissuade more states from contemplating launching their own uranium enrichment programs...the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is considering different mechanisms to assure these states that they can obtain fuel supplies from the market without political interference."
January 2007
"Leadership Experience and American Foreign Policy Crises"
By Philip Potter, Research Fellow, International Security Program
This paper demonstrates that the probability of an international crisis involving the United States declines significantly as a presidential administration gains experience in office.
January 2007
"Searching for Oil: China's Oil Initiatives in the Middle East"
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Dan Shalmon
Explores China’s relationships with oil-producing countries in the Middle East and the possible geopolitical implications of its widening market reach.
