Announcement - Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center

Harvard Project Welcomes Visiting Scholar Jairam Ramesh

September 30, 2014

The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has appointed Jairam Ramesh as a fall 2014 Fisher Family Fellow. The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements is also supporting Mr. Ramesh as a Visiting Scholar. Mr. Ramesh is the former Minister of Environment and Forests for India—and India's Chief Climate Negotiator. A Member of the upper house of India's Parliament from Andhra Pradesh, Ramesh was chief climate negotiator for India during the late 2000's. He has been a leading figure in international climate diplomacy for years.

Ramesh previously worked with Harvard Environmental Economics Program Faculty Fellow Rohini Pande on a Discussion Paper released by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests, "Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India" (August 2010).

While at the Harvard Kennedy School, Ramesh is hosting a climate change negotiation workshop series with students, a public event on September 30 titled "Climate Change Diplomacy: The Road to Paris 2015," and various other meetings with students and faculty.

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