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Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, and Robert Stowe, Co-Director, will attend the Twenty-Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP-29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Harvard Project will co-host two official side events at COP-29.
Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, and Robert Stowe, Co-Director, will attend the Twenty-Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP-29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
COP-29 will run two weeks — November 11 – 22; Stavins and Stowe will attend for much of the first week. If you would like to meet with them, please contact Dr. Stowe at:
+1 802-989-2004
The Harvard Project will co-host two official side events at COP-29:
New Horizons in Methane-Emissions Abatement
Co-Sponsored with Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
6:30 – 8:00
Side Event Room 5
Methane-emissions abatement can, in the near term, significantly reduce the magnitude of climate change and its impacts. We will discuss current research on methane-emissions reduction in various sectors and review best practices in jurisdictions in the Global South and North.
Speakers: Jonathan Banks (invited), Global Director, Methane Pollution Prevention, Clean Air Task Force; Zerin Osho, Director, India Program, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD); Sarah Smith, Program Director – Energy, Global Methane Hub; Robert Stavins (moderator), A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political Economy of Decarbonization
Co-sponsored with Enel Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Foundation Environment - Law Society
Thursday, November 14, 2024
4:45 – 6:15 pm
Side Event Room 2
International flows of goods, services, capital, and knowledge create spillover effects that can impede or advance climate action. We will discuss these effects; policies to reduce negative spillovers, for example carbon border adjustment mechanisms; and how international cooperation can leverage positive spillovers — for example, innovation.
Confirmed speakers: Daniele Agostini, Head of Energy and Climate Policies, Enel; Susanne Dröge, Head, Climate Protection and Energy Department, German Federal Environment Agency; Michael Mehling, Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Joyashree Roy, Distinguished Professor and Director SMARTS Center, Asian Institute of Technology; Robert Stavins (moderator), A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
The background paper for this side event, "Good Spillover, Bad Spillover? Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political Economy of Decarbonization," and its 2-page summary can be downloaded here.
Stowe, Robert. “Harvard Project at COP-29.” Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, October 31, 2024