SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
November 2009
"Climate Finance"
Policy Brief
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"
Policy Brief
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.
September 2007
Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World
Book
By Joseph Aldy, Former Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
The Kyoto Protocol serves as an initial step to mitigate the threats posed by global climate change but policy-makers, scholars, businessmen, and environmentalists have begun debating the structure of the successor to the Kyoto agreement. Written by a team of leading scholars in economics, law and international relations, this book contributes to this debate by examining the merits of six alternative international architectures for climate policy.
August 2002
"From London to Beijing: Using Health Impact Assessments to Promote Sound Development"
Presentation
By Michelle Bell, Guodong Sun, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Project/ Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2002-2006 and Devra Davis
The Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP) seeks to combat global warming and climate change by promoting strategies for efficient energy technologies in China, India, and the United States, such as advanced coal technologies, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and advanced vehicle technologies.
July 2005
"Conclusions: Lessons for the Design and Use of Voluntary, Collaborative, and Information-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy"
Book Chapter
By Vicki Norberg-Bohm and Theo de Bruijn
July 2005
"Introduction: Toward a New Paradigm for the Transition to a Sustainable Industrial Society?"
Book Chapter
By Theo de Bruijn and Vicki Norberg-Bohm
November 15, 2001
"From Science to Policy: Assessing the Assessment Process"
Working Paper
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP; and David Cash, Former Research Associate, 1997-2000; Former Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2000-2001
September, 2000
"'In Order to Aid in Diffusing Useful and Practical Information...': Cross-scale Boundary Organizations and Agricultural Extension"
Discussion Paper
By David Cash, Former Research Associate, 1997-2000; Former Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2000-2001
September, 2000
"Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Risks"
Discussion Paper
By Nancy Dickson, Former Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability, Robert Corell, Former Senior Research Fellow, Global Environment Assessment Project/Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2000-2003, William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;, David Cash, Former Research Associate, 1997-2000; Former Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2000-2001, Edward Parson, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Senior Research Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program, 1990-1992 and J. Michael Hall, Former Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
June, 2000
"Distributed Assessment Systems: An Emerging Paradigm of Research, Assessment and Decision-making for Environmental Change"
Discussion Paper
By David Cash, Former Research Associate, 1997-2000; Former Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2000-2001
