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May 19, 2021, Video: "America’s energy needs and challenges have never been more vital. All forms of renewable energy will play a critical role in addressing those needs. Generating energy that produces little or no greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels is part of the effort to diversify the energy supply and impacts all communities, including the underserved and underfunded."…
| 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.”"
HKS Author - Joseph Aldy
| James H. Stock
April 5, 2021, Paper: "To reliably achieve deep decarbonization of the US power sector, a candidate policy must perform robustly across a range of possible future trajectories of demand, fossil fuel prices, and prices of new wind and solar capacity. Using a modified version of the NREL ReEDS model with scenarios that span different trajectories of demand, fuel prices, and technology costs, we find that some recently proposed policies can…
| William Hogan
March 9, 2021, Paper: "From the Forward:“The evidence is clear. However, due to the nature of science, not every detail is ever totally settled or certain. Nor has every pertinent question yet been answered. Scientific evidence continues to be gathered around the world …"
HKS Author - William Hogan
| 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…
February 12, 2021, Video: "President Biden's National Climate Advisor talked with Yahoo Finance's Rick Newman about the administration's early moves and issues the team will face in the years ahead from managing job losses to whether to impose a carbon tax."
Non-HKS Author Website -…
| James H. Stock
January 21, 2021, Video: "On Thursday, January 21, James Stock joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on macroeconomics, carbon pricing, and climate policy. Stock is a Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Introductory remarks will be made by Markus Brunnermeier."
| Kenneth Rogoff
January 6, 2021, Opinion: "Global carbon pricing is an essential part of any long-term solution to the climate crisis. But advanced economies also need to provide the developing world with highly concessional financing and technical expertise to help it decarbonize – all guided by a World Carbon Bank."
Non-HKS Harvard Author Website - Kenneth Rogoff
December 10, 2020, Book Chapter: "This chapter addresses what needs to be done to craft a politically stable and economically sound climate policy that includes balanced reliance on the four mechanisms to manage climate risks, which we call the climate control mechanisms: emissions reduction, adaptation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation modification. Assessing the balance requires attention to (1) technology development, performance,…
| 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…