Be Careful What You Wish for—Lessons from U.S. Cap-and-Trade Experience

Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Director Robert N. Stavins delivered a presentation, "Be Careful What You Wish for—Lessons from U.S. Cap-and-Trade Experience," in Brussels, Belgium, on February 12–13, 2014. The event—a workshop, The European Emissions Trading System—Taking Stock, Looking Forward: Options for Reform, was co-hosted by the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. Stavins gave a broad overview of how market mechanisms have been used to tackle environmental issues in the United States.

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