The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Dan Jørgensen
Friday, April 8, 2022
9:30 - 10:30 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
Dan Jørgensen
Decarbonizing Europe is Important and Challenging
As a global leader in efforts to combat climate change, Denmark is aiming to phase out its oil and gas production and produce more than 100 percent of its electricity demand by renewables by 2027. Dan Jørgensen, the Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, will be our guest for the next HPCA Virtual Forum, “Conversations on Climate Change and Energy Policy." Minister Jørgensen played a significant role in maintaining the focus on reducing the rise of global temperatures during COP26 in Glasgow, serving as co-leader on the consultations in the “ambition track.” In addition, he launched the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) during the COP. This discussion will focus on climate policy in general, including the Paris Agreement, COP26, and Danish and European efforts to decarbonize their economies.
Garret Graves
Thursday, March 10, 2022
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here..
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
U.S. Climate Change Policy in an Era of Political Polarization
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves represents the 6th congressional district of Louisiana, is the Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, and serves on the House Natural Resources Committee, making him particularly qualified to speak on these issues from an informed lawmaker’s perspective. Professor Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project, will host this webinar.
Laurence Tubiana
Tuesday, November 30, 2011
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
Insights from Laurence Tubiana on COP26
Laurence Tubiana played a key role in the UN climate change conference in 2015 at which the Paris Agreement was adopted, as the lead negotiator representing host-country France. Ms. Tubiana has been Chief Executive Officer of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) since 2017. ECF is a major philanthropic initiative to foster the development of a low-carbon society and help Europe to play an even stronger international leadership role to mitigate climate change.
Valerie Karplus
Thursday, July 22, 2011
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
The Future of China's National Carbon Market
China’s emissions trading system (ETS) for carbon dioxide will become operational in mid-2021. The system targets reductions in carbon intensity via a tradeable performance standard, initially in the power sector, with expected expansion to other industries. Plans to convert from a rate-based to a mass-based system are underway. The speaker will describe the trading system’s history, design, rules governing implementation, and anticipated developments over the next decade. The ETS is expected to support China’s goals of reaching peak CO2 emissions by 2030 and of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.
Nathaniel Keohane
Friday, April 30, 2021
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
The Path Ahead for Climate Change Policy
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements will host Nat Keohane, Senior Vice President for Climate at the Environmental Defense Fund. HPCA Director, Rob Stavins, will engage Nat in conversation focusing on the topic, "The Path Ahead for Climate Change Policy" where they will discuss what comes next for climate policy both in the United States and abroad. This webinar is a part of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements: Conversations on Climate Change and Energy Policy series.
Ottmar Edenhofer
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
Ottmar Edenhofer
The European Green Deal — Reform or Regulatory Tsunami?
Ottmar Edenhofer, Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, will lead a discussion, “The European Green Deal — Reform or Regulatory Tsunami?” in the next episode of “Conversations on Climate Change and Energy Policy: A Virtual Forum from the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements.” He will address the implications of the European Green Deal for Germany, in particular. Edenhofer is also Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Jason Bordoff
Thursday, November 12, 2020
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
"What's Next for Energy & Climate-Change Policy in the Wake of the U.S. Election?"
Jason Bordoff, Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, will discuss with Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, the implications of the U.S. presidential election for U.S. energy and climate-change policy. Professor Bordoff will explore, in particular, how various election outcomes might lead to quite different U.S. stances on climate-change and energy policy. Bordoff and Stavins will also discuss how the various scenarios for the United States might affect international policy and action on climate change.
Joseph E. Aldy
Monday, October 19, 2020
9:00 - 10:00 am (U.S./Canadian Eastern Daylight Time)
"Greening Economic Stimulus: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act"
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of his webinar is available here.
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an economic crisis in the United States and around the world. Once the public health risk is managed, the U.S. economy will likely face its highest unemployment rate and largest shortfall of economic activity since the Great Depression. Other economies across the world are likewise suffering through significant economic contractions that necessitate economic recovery programs. Environmental stakeholders, the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the International Energy Agency, and major politicians have called for the greening of future economic stimulus so that it simultaneously promotes job creation and addresses the climate crisis. Drawing from the lessons learned from the unprecedented U.S. spending on clean energy in the 2009 Recovery Act — from first-hand experience negotiating these provisions with Congress as a member of President Obama’s transition team, overseeing their implementation in practice at the White House, and conducting and synthesizing academic research on their performance — Joseph Aldy will explore the potential design of and prospects for climate-oriented economic stimulus.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
9:00 – 10:00 am
"Why We Need More Than a Carbon Price"
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A transcript of this webinar is available here.
Although nearly all economists consider a carbon-pricing policy — either in the form of a carbon tax or a carbon emissions trading system — to be necessary to accomplish ambitious CO2 emissions reductions in large, complex economies, most such economists would also recognize such a carbon-pricing policy will not be sufficient. This is partly because of other market failures that get in the way of price signals, such as principal-agent problems and information spillovers of the results of research and development activities. Beyond this, there are significant political impediments to implementing carbon pricing in many jurisdictions. Professor Stiglitz will talk about this and much more in a conversation with Harvard Professor Robert Stavins.
Rachel Kyte
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
9:00 – 10:00 am
"Using the Pandemic Recovery to Spur the Clean Transition —
Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls"
A recording of this webinar is available here.
The slide deck from the webinar is available here.
Rachel Kyte discussed a potential green recovery from the pandemic — how recovery efforts might be leveraged to accelerate the transition to a clean and sustainable energy system — in the United States and globally. She is the Dean of The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and she has held senior positions in the World Bank and United Nations dealing with climate change and sustainability.
Jacob Werksman
Thursday, July 9, 2020
9:00 – 10:00 am
Jacob Werksman
“European Green Deal, Green Recovery, and Its External Dimensions”
A recording of this webinar is available here.
A news article about this webinar is available here.
In an online conversation, Jacob Werksman and Robert Stavins discussed legal dimensions of the Paris Agreement process and the impact of the withdrawal of the United States from the Agreement, as well as Europe’s Green Deal. Werksman is Principal Adviser for International Aspects of EU Climate Policy to the Director General of DG Climate Action in the European Commission. Mr. Werksman’s biography is here. (Director General Mauro Petriccione had been scheduled to join Professor Stavins in this webinar but was called away for urgent business.)
Meghan O'Sullivan
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
10:00 – 11:00 am
“The Geopolitics of the Global Upheaval in Oil Markets”
A recording of this webinar is available here.
Meghan O’Sullivan is Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the chair of the North American Group of the Trilateral Commission. Her third book, Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2017.