"Belfer Center participants in the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (UNFCCC) agreed that while the summit did not produce the treaty most wanted, it did make some significant progress. They disagree, however, on how much. Professors JeffreyFrankel, Kelly Sims Gallagher, and Robert Stavins, all members of the Belfer Center Board of Directors, offer their takeaways from the event."

"Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney should be commended — not condemned — for putting the brakes on the initiative long enough for the states to consider an innovative and important improvement to the program: a safety-valve mechanism that will greatly reduce the program's cost uncertainty, while still delivering the environmental goods."