Harvard Professor Martin Weitzman Gives Lecture in Berlin

Harvard Project on Climate Agreements collaborator and Professor of Economics at Harvard University Martin Weitzman discussed the potential of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs to deal with climate change. He also expressed his concerns regarding geoengineering. The lecture, "Why is the Economics of Climate Change so Difficult and Controversial?" was delivered at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, Germany on May 28, 2014. Read more here. The Harvard Project has collaborated with Mercator in the past (see here and here).