Robert Stavins describes the progress made on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions at the recent climate conference in Katowice, Poland.

Robert Stavins addresses the following question: What can climate negotiators do to further strengthen the Paris climate agreement and to encourage countries to further reduce their carbon footprints over time?

"In his tenure in the House of Representatives, before his move to the CIA, Pompeo, who represented a district in Kansas around Wichita, was a consistent, long-term, and vocal skeptic of the science of climate change, and an outspoken critic of the Obama administration’s climate policies...."

Professor Robert N. Stavins, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School, will conduct a 45-minute webcast on the current state of climate-change policy on July 26, 2017 at 2:00 PM EDT. To learn more and register, please sign up here:

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"The announcement on June 1 by President Donald Trump that he will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement was misguided, and the justifications Trump provided were — at best — misleading and, to some degree, simply untruthful. Withdrawing from the Paris agreement will be damaging both to the United States and the world. Sadly, Trump's withdrawal announcement makes clear that the president has little understanding of the nature of the agreement, the process for withdrawal, or the implications of withdrawal for the United States, let alone for the world."