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Harvard's Stavins, Stowe Compare Climate Change Policies in Paris

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  • Doug Gavel
| December 6, 2015

Event co-sponsored by Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

The role of market mechanisms for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and the relationship between climate change policy and international trade were the topics of a side-event panel discussion on Friday at the Conference of the Parties (COP21), the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris. The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, addressed a variety of issues related to the emissions-reduction targets that countries are putting forward as part of a new agreement to be concluded in Paris.

The panel, titled "Dialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies," featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project; Harvard Project Manager Robert Stowe; and several other scholars in the field. The discussion was moderated by Zou Ji, deputy director-general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC)....

Continue reading: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/12/harvards-stavins-stowe-compare-climate-change-policies-in-paris/

For more information on this publication: Please contact Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
For Academic Citation: Gavel, Doug. “Harvard's Stavins, Stowe Compare Climate Change Policies in Paris.” Harvard Gazette, December 6, 2015.

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Robert N. Stavins

Robert N. Stavins

  • Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
  • A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development
  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
  • Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
  • Chair, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group
  • Chairman, Ph.D. Programs in Public Policy and Political Economy & Government
  • Co-Chair, Kennedy School–Harvard Business School Joint Degree Programs
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