Magazine Article - Harvard Gazette

Optimism on U.N. Climate Talks

    Author:
  • Alvin Powell
| November 17, 2015

Momentum building for significant agreement, panelists say

Panelists at the Kennedy School on Monday expressed optimism about the U.N. climate conference set to begin in Paris on Nov. 30, calling U.S. participation on the heels of domestic climate-related moves a "game-changer." Still, they took care to point out that progress, not a solution, is the best-case scenario for the talks.

"There's an opportunity now and there's promise now that I have not experienced in the 20 years that I've been following … negotiations," said Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and head of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. "My view is that this is a very significant moment, both in the history of climate negotiations, but more importantly … in the history of seriously addressing global climate change."...

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Complete Photo Credit: Jon Chase, Harvard Staff Photographer


An Institute of Politics video of the event may be viewed here>

For more information on this publication: Please contact Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
For Academic Citation: Powell, Alvin. “Optimism on U.N. Climate Talks.” Harvard Gazette, November 17, 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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