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Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory & Experience
(MIT Press, 2012)
Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate ...
The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions ...
Willingness to Pay and Political Support for a U.S. National Clean Energy Standard
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
In 2010 and 2011, Republicans and Democrats proposed mandating clean power generation in the electricity sector. To evaluate public support for a national clean energy standard (NCES), we conducted a nationally representative ...
Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
The information structure of the climate change policy collaboration problem necessitates the design of institutions to enhance public knowledge about nations’ commitments, policies, and outcomes. The international community ...
The Environmental Justice Dimensions of Climate Change
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)
Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first century. Many countries, however, lack the wealth, technology, and government ...
Promoting Clean Energy in the American Power Sector
(Brookings Institution, 2011)
Despite bipartisan interest in advancing American energy policy, comprehensive energy and climate legislation fell short in the Senate last year after passing in the House of Representatives in 2009. The difficulty of ...
Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil spill risks. This essay reviews the Obama ...
A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than $90 billion in strategic clean energy investments intended to promote job creation and promote deployment of low-carbon technologies. In terms of spending, the ...
The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic emission mitigation policies could cause adverse “competitiveness” impacts on domestic manufacturers as they lose market share to foreign competitors and ...
Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
(2014)
The effectiveness of investment subsidies depends on the existing array of regulatory and information mandates, especially in the energy efficiency space. Some consumers respond to information disclosure by purchasing ...