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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