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Magazine Article - Resources Magazine

What Economics Can Say about an Effective Response to the Coronavirus

| Apr. 02, 2020

In a recent podcast interview, Robert Stavins and Scott Barrett discussed lessons from historic pandemics, how economists can help with policymaking surrounding the coronavirus, and what the “post-pandemic economic equilibrium” might look like. Resources Magazine has published an abridged version of their conversation.

News - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Columbia University Professor Scott Barrett Compares Global Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change in Special Edition of "Environmental Insights"

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  • Doug Gavel
| Mar. 27, 2020

Columbia University Professor Scott Barrett assessed the massive global efforts underway to address COVID-19 and the potential impacts of the pandemic on our lives in the future in a special episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program,” a podcast produced by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Listen to the interview here.

Audio - Harvard Environmental Economics Program

Confronting COVID-19: A Conversation with Columbia University Professor Scott Barrett

| Mar. 27, 2020

Columbia University Professor Scott Barrett assessed the massive global efforts underway to address COVID-19 and the potential impacts of the pandemic on our lives in the future in a special episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.

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Discussion Paper - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Global Environment and Trade Policy

| April 2009

Global environmental goals and trade goals can be reconciled.   Globalization and multilateral institutions can facilitate environmental protection rather than obstruct it, if they are harnessed in the right way.  Perhaps most urgent is that negotiators working on a sequel to the Kyoto Protocol agree on guidelines to govern precisely how individual countries can and cannot use trade measures in pursuit of carbon mitigation.

Robert Stavins (center), director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Carlo Carraro (left) of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and Jing Cao (right) of Tsinghua University, discuss global climate policy in Poznan, Poland, in December.

Rob Stowe

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Climate Team Suggests Post-Kyoto Ideas

| Spring 2009

A new report from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements outlined several promising ideas for successors to the Kyoto Protocol ... guidance on the most intractable challenges facing global climate negotiators, including participation by developing countries, how to reduce deforestation, and how to prevent a "collision" between climate policy and international trade law