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Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Discussion Paper Summaries

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements prepares two-page summaries of many of its discussion papers, with the goal of making these papers more accessible to policy makers, leaders in business and non-governmental organizations, and other interested readers. The two-page summaries generally provide an overview of the paper, background on the topic, key findings, and conclusions.

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Policy Brief - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center

Towards a Global Compact for Managing Climate Change—Summary

    Author:
  • Ramgopal Agarwala
| December 2008

Despite the dangers of climate change, there is little progress toward a global climate agreement. This paper presents an approach that could reconcile the perspectives of developing and developed countries, differences which have deviled potential agreements for quite some time.

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Policy Brief - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center

A Sectoral Approach as an Option for a Post-Kyoto Framework—Summary

    Author:
  • Akihiro Sawa
| December 2008

The Kyoto Protocol uses a top-down mechanism to negotiate economy-wide emissions caps. This paper proposes an alternative "sectoral" approach, which would determine industry-level emissions reduction targets based on technological analyses.

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Policy Brief - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center

Possible Development of a Technology Clean Development Mechanism in a Post-2012 Regime—Summary

    Authors:
  • Fei Teng
  • Wenying Chen
  • Jiankun He
| December 2008

Many technologies that could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions do exist, but not in developing countries. Thus, transfer of climate-friendly technologies from developed to developing countries is vital to solve the global climate challenge. This paper proposes an enhanced Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) regime with greater emphasis on technology transfer.

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Policy Brief - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center

What Do We Expect from an International Climate Agreement? A Perspective from a Low-income Country—Summary

    Author:
  • E. Somanathan
| December 2008

Although an effective solution to the climate change problem will require the cooperation of the developing countries, it is not clear that near-term greenhouse gas emission quotas from these countries are either feasible or desirable. This paper argues that a post-2012 international climate agreement should instead focus on creating incentives to stimulate research and development of new climate-friendly technologies.

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Policy Brief - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center

Reconciling Human Development and Climate Protection: Perspectives from Developing Countries on Post-2012 International Climate Change Policy—Summary

| December 2008

This paper proposes a fair and efficient climate change policy architecture for the post-2012 era. It focuses on how to break the current political impasse between the developed and the developing countries. The architecture is a multi-stage framework that gradually engages developing countries.

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International Climate Technology Strategies—Summary

    Author:
  • Richard G. Newell
| October 2008

Policies facilitating innovation and large-scale adoption of low-carbon technologies will need to play a central role in global efforts to address climate change, alongside policies targeted directly at reducing emissions.  This paper considers opportunities for improved and expanded international technology development and transfer strategies within the broader context of international agreements and institutions for climate, energy, trade, development, and intellectual property.