Harvard Project Receives Award from Harvard University Climate Fund

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements received a grant in March 2016 from the Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund, along with nine other programs and projects at Harvard University. The awardees are profiled in an article in the Harvard Gazettehere.

The Harvard Project's initiative will identify options for elaborating and implementing the Paris Agreement—the landmark multilateral climate-change agreement concluded in December 2015. (Read about the Harvard Project's activities at the Paris conference here.) As with all of the Harvard Project's work, these options will be the outcome of multidisciplinary research and analysis. The initiative will also explore institutions and processes that might complement or supplement the Paris Agreement.

The grant will support a research workshop in summer 2016, including as participants leading experts on international climate-change policy from Harvard and around the world. The grant will also support the participation of the Harvard Project in the next annual UN climate-change conference, in Marrakesh, Morocco in November 2016. At this conference, Robert Stavins—Harvard Project Director—and colleagues will discuss the results of the current research initiative with climate negotiators, policy makers, and leaders from non-governmental organizations and business associations.

The Paris Agreement will become effective, for most purposes, in 2020, and the Harvard Project intends to pursue the current line of research through that time. The grant from the Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund makes possible a strong start to this important initiative.