FEATURED PROFILE
 Michael Toffel is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School and a HEEP Faculty Fellow. His research examines how companies measure and reduce the environmental impacts of their operations and supply chains. He also examines alternative institutions that seek to monitor facilities’ environmental performance, including industry self-regulation programs, third-party auditors, and government voluntary approaches. He teaches "Business and the Environment", an award-winning MBA elective. He previously worked as a corporate director and consultant in environment, health, and safety management, in Southeast Asia and the United States. Toffel received a PhD in Business Administration from UC Berkeley and an MBA and Master of Environmental Management from Yale University.
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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
SO2 Allowance-Trading Policy Brief
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program released, on January 31, a policy brief based in large part on a research workshop and policy roundtable held in May 2011, "The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation." The workshop and roundtable, as well as the preparation of the policy brief, were supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To read the brief, click here.
The problem with green rankings
Michael Toffel, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, co-authored an online article for The Guardian on December 20, 2011, entitled “The problem with green rankings.” The authors address the important issue of companies reducing their environmental impact and explain the importance of corporate sustainability rankings and their potential flaws.
Innovation in India
Rema Hanna, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, was recently interviewed by the BBC radio program Business Daily. The host of the show, Lesley Curwen, asked Professor Hanna about her research on environmental laws and regulation in India. Professor Hanna speaks of the importance of citizen support of environmental regulation. Listen to Rema Hanna speak from minutes 5:45 to 10:30 in this audio clip.
HEEP Director, Affiliates Participate in IPCC Process
Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, joined colleagues in Changwon, Republic of Korea in mid-July to begin preparing the climate-change mitigation portion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report. Four other HEEP affiliates participated in the Changwon session: Karen Fisher-Vanden, Charles Kolstad, Som Somanathan, and Martin Weitzman. Read the article here.
Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Learn about this exciting initiative, whose goal is to identify
policy architectures that hold promise as successors to the
Kyoto Protocol.
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