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| Joseph Aldy
April 22, 2021, Video: "On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. E.T., Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, will hold the Subcommittee’s first hearing of the Congress on Earth Day entitled, “The Role of Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Preventing Action on the Climate Crisis.”"
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| Joseph Aldy
February 25, 2021, Video: "This webinar was given by Michael Livermore, Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. It was given on Thursday, February 25, 2021 as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series."
| Joseph Aldy
February 18, 2021, Video: "In this presentation, Harvard Economist Joseph E. Aldy, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, draws from the theory and practice of carbon pricing and pollution markets more generally to explore the potential design of U.S. climate change policy. Aldy is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National…
| Joseph Aldy
December 2020, Paper: " The United States and United Kingdom have longstanding traditions in use of environmental benefit-cost analysis (E-BCA). While there are similarities between how E-BCA is utilized, there are significant differences too, many of which mirror ongoing debates and recent developments in the literature on environmental and natural resource economics. We review the use of E-BCA in both countries across three themes: (a) the…
| Joseph Aldy
November 30, 2020, Paper: "As of late 2020, the Trump administration had initiated almost one hundred rollbacks of U.S. environmental regulations. A careful assessment of the benefits and costs of rolling back an existing regulation can and should inform such decisions. When assessing the potential rollback of an existing regulation, analysts can often learn from the regulation’s implementation through retrospective analysis as well as from…
| Douglas Elmendorf | Joseph Aldy | Nicholas Burns | Jason Furman | Juliette Kayyem | Wendy Sherman | Sandra Susan Smith
November 12, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School faculty discuss the challenges faced by the incoming U.S. presidential administration, and possible policy prescriptions for dealing with them." Watch Via HKS on Youtube
| Joseph Aldy
2020, Paper: "While national governments pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement, delivering on these aims will require significant changes in the activities of major sources of emissions such as companies. To drive such changes, companies will need to consider carbon emissions as a cost of production and many companies have begun doing so through internal carbon pricing. By employing data from the Carbon…
| Joseph Aldy
2020, Paper: "A well-functioning environmental regulatory program makes the American people better off by protecting the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we eat. If markets work well in allocating resources, then government regulation is unnecessary. Indeed, government intervention in well-functioning markets will likely make society worse off by imposing costs that exceed their benefits. If markets do not work well, as evidenced by…
| Joseph Aldy | Robert Stavins
July 2020, Paper, "The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear. Much more challenging to identify are the impacts of Nordhaus and his research on public policy in this domain. We examine three conceptually distinct pathways for that influence: his personal participation in the policy world; his research’s direct contribution to the formulation and evaluation of…
| Joseph Aldy
July-August 2020, Paper, "Employing a Broader Policy Toolkit to Mitigate Climate Change Risks. Copyright ©2020, Environmental Law Institute®, Washington D.C. www.eli.org. Reprinted by permission from The Environmental Forum®, July-August."