Global Environmental Issues 

The Environment and Globalization                                        

“Trade, Growth, and the Environment,” slides for guest lecture in Rob Stavins’ class in Environmental & Resource Economics and Policy, April 2008 , 2009.

"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 Working Paper No. 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 Working Paper 10090.   Reprinted in Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Fifth Edition, edited by R.Stavins (W.W.Norton: New York), 2005.

Global Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol          

NEW   "Global Environment and Trade Policy," March 2009,  for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.    Proofs;  forthcoming in Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy, edited by Joe Aldy and Rob Stavins, Cambridge University Press, 2009;    Revised version of “Global Environmental Policy and Global Trade Policy,”   RWP08-058.  HPICA paper no.08-14, Oct. 2008.   Policy summary.      "HKS news: Kyoto Protocol and World Trade Organization on a “collision course.”

“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.

“Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue In Climate Change Policy Proposals,” 2008,  panel on Proposals to Deal with Leakages,.conference on Climate Change, Trade and Investment: Is a Collision Inevitable?;    revised, March 2009;   proofs; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2009, edited by Lael Brainard and Isaac Sorkin, p. 69-91.      Weatherhead Center for International Affairs WP 4792,  Harvard University, April 2009.
 
“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 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.

 "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, Italy, June 2004.    KSG RWP04-042.  Published as "Climate and Trade: Links Between the Kyoto Protocol and WTO,"  in Environment, vol. 47, no. 7, September 2005: 8-19.

"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 economics, more generally                          

"Advice for the New Administration: Spend Green Today, Tax Green in the Future," weblog, Jan. 20, 2009.

"Achieving Environmental Goals at Minimum Economic Cost," Edison Electric Institute Advisory Panel on Fuel Diversity, EEI Chief Executives Conference, Palm Springs, CA, Jan. 2000

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

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