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China's Carbon Emissions Report 2016
(Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2016)Climate change driven by anthropengic carbon emissions is one of the most serious challenges facing human development. China is currently the world’s largest developing country, primary energy consumer, and carbon emitter. ... -
Comparative Assessment of China and U.S. Policies to Meet Climate Change Targets
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2017-02)China and the United States together emit more than 40 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) according to the latest available data.[1] Therefore any successful global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must ... -
University-Industry Collaboration in Science and Technology in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2017-03)Policymakers in the Gulf region recognize the importance of strengthening science and technology (S&T) to boost competitiveness and economic development. A number of efforts have been made in recent years to bolster higher ... -
Pursuing a Low-Carbon Action Plan: The Case of Chongqing City
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2017-05)China has committed to stabilize its greenhouse gas emissions and increase the percent of non-fossil fuel energy to 20% by 2030. This goal will require significant programmatic and policy changes across all sectors of its ... -
Foundations of Decarbonization in China: A Post-2030 Perspective
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2017-07)The Harvard-Tsinghua Workshop on Low-Carbon Development and Public Policy is the fourth annual joint workshop between the Harvard Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Center for Science, ... -
The Department of Energy National Laboratories
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2017-11)This report recommends policies and actions to improve the return on investment the U.S. government makes in sponsoring research and development (R&D) at the Department of Energy's (DOE) seventeen National Laboratories ... -
Can the Paris Deal Boost Sustainable Development Goals Achievement?
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2018-02)The paper analyses the synergies and trade-offs between emission reduction policies and sustainable development objectives. Specifically, it provides an ex-ante assessment that the impacts of the Nationally Determined ... -
Harvard-Tsinghua Workshop on Low-Carbon Development and Public Policy
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2018-09)On June 7, 2018, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Center for Science, Technology, and Education Policy at Tsinghua University held the fifth annual Tsinghua-Harvard Workshop ... -
Charging the Future
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2018-09)Electric vehicles (EVs) have advanced significantly this decade, owing in part to decreasing battery costs. Yet EVs remain more costly than gasoline fueled vehicles over their useful life. This paper analyzes the additional ... -
The Role of Electric Vehicles in Decarbonizing China’s Transportation Sector
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2019-04)The Chinese government has repeatedly embraced a goal of developing and deploying electric vehicles (EVs) as it attempts to transition its passenger fleet away from conventional gasoline and diesel-fueled cars. China’s ... -
Environmental Implications and Policy Challenges for Bringing Long-Haul Electric Trucks into China: The Case of the Tesla Semi
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2019-07)The Tesla Semi is a battery powered electric long haul truck currently in the prototype phase. Since cost and technological barriers have prevented electric vehicles from making significant inroads into the market for long ... -
Geopolitical and Market Implications of Renewable Hydrogen: New Dependencies in a Low-Carbon Energy World
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-03)To accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy, all energy systems and sectors must be actively decarbonized. While hydrogen has been a staple in the energy and chemical industries for decades, renewable ... -
The Value of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-03)Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) represents a class of technologies that directly capture carbon dioxide, either before or after combustion, and then either permanently store it in underground deposits ... -
Should Regulators Make Electric Utilities Pay Customers for Poor Reliability?
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-06)In September 2017, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) required that the city’s regulated electricity distribution utilities pay compensation to customers experiencing power outages of three hours or longer. ... -
Is China's Hydrogen Economy Coming?
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-07-28)To accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy, all energy systems and sectors must be actively decarbonized. While hydrogen has been a staple in the energy and chemical industries for decades, renewable ... -
Deploying Energy Innovation at Scale for a Low-Carbon Economy: The Private Sector Role - ENGIE
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-09)Providing secure, reliable, affordable energy that is needed to fuel prosperity for all without causing devastating environmental consequences is perhaps the greatest challenge of the 21st century. Over the coming decades, ... -
National Cyber Power Index 2020: Methodology and Analytical Considerations
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-09)The Belfer National Cyber Power Index (NCPI) measures 30 countries’ cyber capabilities in the context of seven national objectives, using 32 intent indicators and 27 capability indicators with evidence collected from ... -
Linkages between the Indian Innovation System and MNE R&D Centers in India
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-09)The rise of developing economies (such as India and China) as new knowledge powers is reshaping the global innovation landscape. In a related vein, R&D has been increasingly globalizing beyond the triad region, multinational ... -
The Future of Carbon Offset Markets
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-10)Corporations, organizations, and even governments are purchasing offsets to reduce their carbon footprint. This policy brief provides an overview of the offset process – who buys them, who produces them, and who certifies ... -
Addressing Dramatic Changes in the Bering Strait Region Requires Governance Adaptations
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-11)These words describe the extraordinary changes happening in the Arctic region. The Arctic of today does not resemble the Arctic of fifty years ago, and the Arctic of 2070 will be different still, based on everything we ...