Global Environmental Issues
Global Environmental Issues
International Environmental Issues and
International Trade
“Trade, Growth, and the
Environment,” slides for guest
lecture, April 2011, in
Rob Stavins’ class in Environmental & Resource Economics and Policy,
2008
, 2009,
2010, .
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“Environmental Effects of International
Trade,” A Report for the Swedish Globalisation Council, Government of Sweden; presented Jan.2009, Stockholm. Proofs . RWP 09-006, Harvard KS, 2009.
Press coverage:
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"Global Environment and Trade Policy," March 2009. Proofs, in Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy, edited by Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 493-529; Revised version of “Global Environmental Policy and Global Trade Policy,” RWP08-058. HPICA paper no.08-14, Oct. 2008, for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. Policy summary. "HKS news: Kyoto Protocol and World Trade Organization on a “collision course.”
“Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue In Climate Change Policy Proposals,” proofs (Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC), 2009, edited by Lael Brainard and Isaac Sorkin, pp.69-91. Panel on Proposals to Deal with Leakages, 2008 conference on Climate Change, Trade and Investment: Is a Collision Inevitable?; revised, March 2009; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs WP 4792, Harvard University, April 2009.
"Climate and Trade: Links Between the Kyoto Protocol and WTO," Environment, vol. 47, no. 7, September 2005: 8-19. Based on"Kyoto and Geneva: Linkage of the Climate Change Regime and the Trade Regime" a speech for Broadening Climate Discussion: The Linkage of Climate Change to Other Policy Areas, FEEM/MIT conference, Venice, 2004. KSG RWP04-042.
"Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting out the Causality" with Andrew Rose, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87, no.1, February 2005. NBER WP 9201 NBER Digest. [Data available (in Stata).]
"The Environment and Globalization" in Globalization: What's New edited by Michael Weinstein, Council on Foreign Relations (Columbia University Press: New York), 2005, pp. 129-169. NBER WP 10090. Reprinted in Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, 5th Edition, edited by RobertStavins, 2005; 6th Edition (paperback), 2012 (W.W.Norton: NY).
Global
Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Copenhagen Accord 
"Sustainable Cooperation
in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas
and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun,"
with Valentina Bosetti,
2011. NBER WP 17669,
Dec.2012.
Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Discussion Paper
No.46; ; and
Working Paper 66,
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, September 2011.
Background
study for Human
Development Report 2011: Sustaining Equitable Progress,
United Nations Development Program.
3rd draft;
appendices, April 24; 1st
draft, March 28, 2011.
"After the Cancun Agreements: What is the Politically Feasible Path to
Comprehensive Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions?"
slides,
Boston College, March 28, 2011.
Without appendices.
[Press
coverage: "Fact
Check: Hurt's claim about jobs and Cap and Trade,"
PolitiFact.com, WSLS, Virginia
&
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Apr.13, 2011.
"India
May Drop Per Capita Stand," The Hindu, February 8, 2011.]
| “Possible Impacts of Global
Climate Change Policy on Mexico and other Developing Countries in Coming Years,”
memo to Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Jan. 2009.
Chapter 2.2 of The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009, edited by Ricardo Hausmann, CID, Harvard Univ.; and Emilio Lozoya Austin and Irene Mia, WEF (Geneva: World Economic Forum), 2009. Released in June 2009 at a workshop in Mexico City attended by President Calderón. |
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“How
to Make Climate Change Research Relevant to Washington policymakers,” Energy
Modeling Forum Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment,
Snowmass, Colorado, 2008,
pwrpt.slides.
“Next
Steps After the Kyoto Protocol: Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets
(summary),”
Vox , June 2007.
“Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets,” Chapter 2 in
Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post Kyoto
World, edited by Joe Aldy and Robert
Stavins,
Cambridge University Press,
2007, p. 32-56. Also pre-published as
KSG RWP07-011, Feb. 2007.
[Press coverage: Press release,
"After Kyoto, Then What?" Kennedy School professor outlines plan to confront
challenges posed by greenhouse gas emissions, March 2007.
Book tour. ]
Summary slides version,
for
New Directions in
Regulatory Policy,
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for
Business and Government Oct. 24, 2007.
“Next Steps After the Kyoto Protocol: Formulas for Quantitative Emission Targets,” Vox , June 25, 2007.
"Designing a Regime of Emission Commitments for Developing Countries that is Cost-Effective and Equitable" (with Joseph Aldy), written for G20 Leaders and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, September 20-21, 2004.
"You're Getting Warmer: The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run Through Kyoto," Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy, 2001. Published in Trade and Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Transition Economies, edited John Maxwell and Rafael Reuveny (Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., UK), 2005; pp. 37-55.
"The Impact of a Revised Kyoto Protocol on Developing Countries," written August 2004, for Business and Economy, India.
"The Economics of the Kyoto Protocol and Global Climate Change Policy," Kennedy School Forum, Harvard University, March 15, 2000.
"Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Policy Brief no. 52, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, June 1999.
"The Kyoto Treaty: Economic and Environmental Consequences," comments for a forum at The National Press Club, Sept. 23, 1998. In Climate Change Policy: Practical Strategies to Promote Economic Growth and Environmental Quality, American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research, Washington, DC, 1999, 25-31.
"What Kind of Research on Climate Change Economics Would Be of Greatest Use to Policy-makers?" Proceedings of Workshop on Climate Change and Economic Modeling: Background Analysis for the Kyoto Protocol, OECD Headquarters, Paris, Sept. 1998. In Economic Modeling of Climate Change , OECD, November.
“The Kyoto Agreement on Global Climate Change: The Administration Economic Analysis,” Luncheon Remarks to the NBER Conference on Tax Policy and the Economy, Hotel Washington, October 20, 1998. Appendix: Tables and Charts of Effects on Energy Prices.
"Curbing Carbon Emissions and the Kyoto Protocol: Perspective from the Administration," Washington Policy Seminar, Macroeconomic Advisers, Georgetown Conference Center, September 10, 1998.
"Economic Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol," After Kyoto: Are There Rational Pathways to a Sustainable Global Energy System?, 1998 Aspen Energy Forum, Aspen, Colorado, July 6, 1998. Appendix: Tables and Charts of Effects on Energy Prices.
"The Kyoto Agreement on Mitigating Global Climate Change: Gains to All from Participation by Developing Countries," Keynote speech, Executive Program on Climate Change and Development, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University, July 17, 1998.
Environmental
and energy economics, more generally
"Real Energy
Security: Drill, Baby, Drill—But Not Now," Dec.3,
2010,
Weekly Policy Commentary,
Resources for the Future. "Gulfs
in Our Energy Security, and the Louisiana Blowout,"
blog, May 23,2010
"Advice for the New Administration: Spend Green Today, Tax Green in the Future," weblog, Jan.20, 2009. "Energy and the Environment: The Matrix"; AEA/AERE meetings, San Francisco, Jan.2009.
Comments on “Credibility, Commitment
and Regulation, by Dieter Helm,” In The Natural Resources Trap,
edited by Bill Hogan and Federico Sturzenegger,
(MIT Press: Cambridge MA), 2010.
"Achieving
Environmental Goals at Minimum Economic Cost,"
Edison
Electric Institute Advisory Panel on Fuel Diversity, EEI Chief Executives
Conference, Palm Springs, CA, Jan.2000.
Research
on The
Economics of Oil and Other Commodities:
Natural Resource Curse;
Determination of
Commodity Prices; and
PPT.
Links
to relevant environmental programs/centers in Cambridge, MA
Environmental
Economics Program at Harvard University - A University-Wide Initiative
HEEP
Publications
Harvard Project on
International Climate Agreements
Harvard University Center for the
Environment
National Bureau of
Economic Research program in Environmental Economics
