Robert Stavins was quoted in a May 16th, 2008 article from Reuters. The article, entitled "Complex Climate Treaty Challenges Experts," features a brief summary of a recent academic workshop in Venice, Italy, co-hosted by The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 18th, 2008 edition of USA Today. Environmentalists Hope for Progress with New President.

Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 18th, 2008 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. Bush's Climate Goals Vague--But a Start.

Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 17th, 2008 edition of The Los Angeles Times. President Bush Offers Goals to Fight Climate Change.

Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 10, 2008 edition of ClimateWire. Can the Senate sidestep a 67-vote climate treaty ratification?. (Subscription Required)

Robert Stavins was quoted in the April 2, 2008 edition of ClimateWire. Prospect of 'gap' worries climate change negotiators. (Subscription Required)

The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements' March research workshop, Workshop ponders: Post-Kyoto, What Next? was featured in an online edition of the Harvard Gazette, March 20th 2008.

Robert Stavins co-authored an op-ed in the March 16th, 2008 edition of the Sacramento Bee. The article, entitled, Lawrence Goulder and Robert Stavins: State fight against climate change benefits everyone, applauds California's passage of Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act.

Robert Stavins was quoted in the March 13, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Economist Strikes Gold in Climate-Change Fight

Robert Stavins and Joseph Aldy were quoted in the March 11, 2008 edition of ClimateWire. Congress: Behind 'safety valve' debate resides 30+ years of history. (Subscription Required)

Robert Stavins was featured in the March 3, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal. McCain's Economy Platform: Big Tax Cuts, With Caveats

Robert Stavins was recently profiled in Upstream. The article discusses Stavins' work as Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. This article was originally published in Upstream on 18 January 2008, and is protected by copyright.

Two former HEEP pre-doctoral fellows, both of whom have gone on to become professors at Yale University, Nathaniel Keohane (Ph.D. Political Economy and Government, 2001) and Sheila Olmstead (Ph.D. Public Policy, 2002), have just published their co-authored book, Markets and the Environment (Island Press, 2007). A cover quote by HEEP Director, Professor Robert Stavins, describes the book: "Two of the world's leading young environmental economists offer a concise, balanced, and highly accessible treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of contemporary scholarship. Here is a book that will serve both as a superb text for an introductory course and an entertaining and effective introduction for a solo reader who wishes to learn about this growing field of inquiry."

Project Co-Directors Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, along with Carlo Carraro of the University of Venice and Resources for the Future's William Pizer, spoke at a Project-sponsored side event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. More information on the event can be found here. The Presentation given at the Bali COP was entitled, "Architectures for Agreement: Issues and Options for Post-2012 International Climate Change Policy" Carraro's presentation from the side-event was entitled, "Climate Policy in the Post-Kyoto World. Incentives, Institutions and Equity" Pizer's presentation was entitled, "Why start with a bottom-up approach to international climate policy?"

Charles Kolstad's public talk entitled, "Climate Change: is economics the source of the problem or the key to the solution?" was featured in the Harvard Crimson's Dec. 4th synopsis of the event "Ec. Prof Leads Climate Change Talk"

Robert Stavins was featured in the December 3, 2007 edition of The Warsaw Business Journal Poland's Place, post-Kyoto

Robert Stavins was quoted in the December 3, 2007 Greenwire article "Climate: Expectations Low as Bali Talks Begin" (Subscription Required)

Robert Stavins was quoted in the December 1, 2007 Wall Street Journal article "Bali Talks Aim to Set Path for Post-Kyoto Pact" (Subscription Required to View)

Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Co-Directors Robert Stavins and Joseph Aldy were featured in the journal, Nature, Vol. 450, in an article entitled, "Climate Politics: Beyond Bush"

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is launching, in fall 2007, a new “Program on Environmental and Energy Economics.” Martin Feldstein, NBER President, has announced the election of six new NBER Research Associates as part of the program, including two Faculty Fellows of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP): Robert Stavins and Martin Weitzman. The other newly appointed NBER Research Associates are Maureen Cropper (World Bank), Charles Kolstad (University of California, Santa Barbara), Matthew Kahn (University of California, Los Angeles), and Kerry Smith (Arizona State University). Fifty-four other NBER Research Associates are also affiliated with the new program, including HEEP Faculty Fellows David Bloom and Richard Zeckhauser. The program is directed by Professor Don Fullerton of the University of Texas. More information is available at:
http://www.nber.org/programs/eee/eee.html

Robert Stavins was quoted in the May 17, 2007 New York Times article "Energy Standards Needed, Report Says"

Nathaniel Keohane, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management, is leaving Yale to become Director of Economic Policy and Analysis, Environmental Defense, in New York City. Nat received his Ph.D.
in Political Economy and Government (Environmental Economics) from Harvard in 2001.

Robyn Meeks has been awarded the 2007 Vicki Norberg Bohm Fellowship by the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the KSG. Her project is titled "Investigations into integrated water resource management and development: Linkages between local, national and international levels."

Robert Stavins was quoted in the March 7, 2007 New York Times article "A Coal Executive With a Cleanup Mission"

Robert Stavins' work on water-efficiency improvements cited in a February 2, 2007 High Country News article on "The Efficiency Paradox: Why water conservation along the Colorado River — a much-vaunted silver bullet for the West’s coming era of shortage — could have devastating environmental costs." PDF version of High Country News article.

On February 6th, 2007, it was announced that Enel, the Italian energy company, has made a gift of $5 million to establish The Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics. This endowment will allow EEPHU, which will be renamed as the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, to substantially expand its research efforts.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgnews/PressReleases/020607_enel.htm

On January 23rd, 2007, Professor Robert Stavins was interviewed in a BBC article on President Bush's energy policy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6288957.stm

A Boston Globe story on Have yourself a carbon-neutral Christmas..., published December 17, 2006, quotes Prof. Robert Stavins on the merits of buying carbon offsets.

Profs. Richard Cooper and Robert Stavins were quoted in a New York Times story on The Cost of an Overheated Planet published on December 12, 2006, as part of a continuing series exploring "The Energy Challenge."

Prof. Robert Stavins was featured on NPR's All Things Considered commenting on the Stern Report on Climate Change on October 30, 2006.

Kelsey Jack is among the first recipients of the Norberg-Bohm Fellowship, awarded by the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) and Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP).

The Harvard Board of Overseers selected Prof. Robert Stavins to serve on the Faculty advisory group for the Harvard presidential search. (PDF version of article in Harvard Gazette.)

Prof. Robert Stavins is co-editing the new Journal of Wine Economics. (PDF version of article in Harvard Gazette.)

Michael W. Toffel's doctoral dissertation "Voluntary Environmental Management Initiatives: Smoke Signals or Smoke Screens?" won the 2006 "Best Dissertation Award" from the Academy of Management's Social Issues in Management Division, and was a finalist for the "Best Dissertation Award" from the Academy of Management's Organizations and Natural Environment Division.

Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short's paper "Coerced Confessions: How Regulatory Deterrence Drives Self-Policing" won the 2006 Charles H. Levine Award for Best Conference Paper from the Academy of Management's Public and Non-Profit Division.

Fan Zhang won the 2006 International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Best Student Paper Award.

The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, which publishes the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, is launching a new companion journal, the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Kennedy School Professor Robert Stavins has agreed to serve as the new journal's Editor. He will be assisted by two Co-Editors, Professor Carlo Carraro of the University of Venice and Professor Charles Kolstad of the University of California, Santa Barbara, plus a 25-person Editorial Board, and a managing editor. The Review of Environmental Economics and Policy will fill a gap between the popular press and scholarly environmental and resource economics journals, by publishing articles that will serve several goals: to synthesize and integrate lessons learned from active lines of environmental economic research; to provide economic analysis of environmental policy issues; to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the various sub-fields and perspectives of environmental economics; to offer readers an accessible source for state-of-the-art thinking; to suggest directions for future research; to provide insights and readings for classroom use; and to address issues relating to the environmental economics profession. Most articles appearing in the journal will be solicited by the Editor, though all will be subject to peer review. The Association anticipates that this will be a highly regarded and very well read periodical within its targeted audience -- economists and others interested in environmental and resource policy in academia, government, the private sector, and the advocacy world. The journal -- which is being published by Oxford University Press -- will initially be produced twice per year, with each issue having 300 pages of material.

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