POLICY BRIEFINGS, TESTIMONY & PRESENTATIONS
October 7, 1997
The US-China Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
By Jennifer Weeks, Former Executive Director and Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1997-2001
February 2013
"A Climate Diplomacy Proposal: Carbon Pricing Consultations"
By Adele Morris, Warwick McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen
The United States has considerable tax administration and cap-and-trade expertise that could highlight potentially successful carbon pricing approaches. Although this experience is not climate-related, the United States deploys an efficient and highly compliant excise tax system, and it could assist developing country efforts to build their own capacity to tax carbon. The United States also has long experience with cap-and-trade systems for criteria air pollutants, much of which is transferable to greenhouse-gas emissions trading.
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December 18, 2009
"Achieving Comparable Effort through Carbon Price Agreements"
By Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter Wilcoxen
Parties could break the stalemate around hard targets and ensure the comparability of efforts by supplementing commitments on emissions with commitments for price signals on carbon. Under our proposal, all major parties would need to show at least a minimum level of effort regardless of whether they achieve their emissions target, and they would be allowed to exceed their target if they were unable to achieve it in spite of undertaking a high level of effort.
September 5, 2007
"McKibbin and Wilcoxen Proposal: A Credible Foundation for Long-Term International Cooperation on Climate Change"
By Warwick McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen
Warwick McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen propose a system of parallel national-level cap-and-trade programs. Each country would determine its own emissions path and give away long-term permits to regulated firms.
May 23 - 24, 2007
"CO2 Capture-Related Activities in US"
Presented at "a Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage," Beijing, May 23 - 24, 2007.
April 6, 2009
"Scaling Dynamics in Energy Technologies: Historical Evidence & Implications"
Historical patterns of growth across a range of energy technologies are used to explore "scaling". Scaling is used to describe a particular form of growth that is (i) both rapid and substantive, taking into account the overall size of the energy system, and (ii) occurs at multiple levels from the technical unit and/or plant to the industry as a whole (e.g., from a wind turbine or wind farm to total installed wind capacity or manufacturing output). Scaling dynamics are assessed in historical time series data on vehicles, jet aircraft, refineries, and power plants (nuclear, coal, gas, wind). In those cases for which S-shaped growth is clearly evidenced, logistic function parameters are used to compare scaling across different technologies.
March 2013
"Why America Should Not Retrench"
By Stephen Brooks, Former Fellow, International Security Program, 2003-2004, G. John Ikenberry and William Wohlforth, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
The United States' extended system of security commitments creates a set of institutional relationships that foster political communication. Alliance institutions are first about security protection, but they also bind states together and create institutional channels of communication. For example, NATO has facilitated ties and associated institutions that increase the ability of the United States and Europe to talk to each other and to do business. Likewise, the bilateral alliances in East Asia also play a communication role beyond narrow security issues. Consultations and exchanges spill over into other policy areas. This gives the United States the capacity to work across issue areas, using assets and bargaining chips in one area to make progress in another.
May 23 - 24, 2007
"CCS in Europe and USA"
By Iain Wright
Presented at "a Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage," Beijing, May 23 - 24, 2007.
May 23 - 24, 2007
"IGCC and Co-Production in China"
By Yunhan Xiao
Presented at "a Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage," Beijing, May 23 - 24, 2007.
May 23 - 24, 2007
"Near Zero Emission Coal Based Power Generation Project in China"
By Shisen Xu
Presented at "a Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage," Beijing, May 23 - 24, 2007.
