POLICY BRIEFINGS, TESTIMONY & PRESENTATIONS
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November 26, 2007
"Pakistan Crisis"
By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Barry Newhouse
A discussion of the latest political crisis in Pakistan with VOA correspondent in Islamabad Barry Newhouse and political scientist Hassan Abbas, a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program.
United States Congress
October 1, 2007
"Should the United States Continue Supporting Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf?"
By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Moeed Yusuf
Pakistan's October 6 presidential elections present a crossroads, with the possibilities of genuine democratic reform or continued military dominance both in sight.
July 10, 2007
"Pakistani Forces Storm Red Mosque, Kill Cleric"
By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
Hassan Abbas and Samina Ahmed provided the analysis following the news story.
November 2009
"Climate Finance"
By The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
The finance of climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries represents a key challenge in the negotiations on a post-2012 international climate agreement. Finance mechanisms are important because stabilizing the climate will require significant emissions reductions in both the developed and the developing worlds, and therefore large-scale investments in energy infrastructure. The current state of climate finance has been criticized for its insufficient scale, relatively low share of private-sector investment, and insufficient institutional framework. This policy brief presents options for improving and expanding climate finance.
August 2009
"Options for Reforming the Clean Development Mechanism"
By The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)—established by the Kyoto Protocol of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change—is an emissions offset program that allows industrialized countries to receive credits for funding emissions reduction projects in developing countries. The program is intended to provide a cost-effective way for industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time supporting sustainable development in developing countries. However, the CDM has been criticized for its lengthy and expensive project approval procedures, its exclusion of many categories of potentially important mitigation activities, and its methodologies for calculating whether projects actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In response to these problems, this Issue Brief presents a variety of options for reforming the CDM.
July 10, 2007
"Pakistani Forces Storm Red Mosque, Kill Cleric"
By Hassan Abbas, Senior Advisor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
Hassan Abbas and Samina Ahmed provided the analysis following the news story.
November, 2009
Applying For-Profit Principles in Water Management and Agricultural Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
By Mohamad M. Al-Ississ, Former Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Through its partnerships with the government, the agricultural sector in the MENA has long engaged in dubious accounting practices to raise its reported profits through artificially suppressing its costs. This has led to the current unsustainable exploitation of the scarce water resources in the region.
December 10, 2007
"Architectures for Agreement: Issues and Options for Post-2012 International Climate Change Policy"
By Joseph Aldy, Former Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Carlo Carraro and William A. Pizer
Project Co-Directors Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, along with Carlo Carraro of the University of Venice and Resources for the Future's William Pizer, spoke at a Project-sponsored side event at the 13th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia.
December 3, 2007
"The Road from Bali: Strategies for Post-Kyoto Global Climate Policy"
By Joseph Aldy, Former Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Project Co-Director Joseph Aldy was one of three leading experts on international climate change policy who briefed House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming staff on the key issues on the agenda at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, the negotiating positions of the key players, and the significance and expected results of the conference.
Summer 2007
Two-pager: Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and Joseph Aldy, Former Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
The goal of the project 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.
