Good Spillover, Bad Spillover? Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political Economy of Decarbonization
Harvard Project and Enel Foundation Release Paper on Trade and Climate Change Policy in Lead-Up to COP-29
Harvard Project and Enel Foundation Release Paper on Trade and Climate Change Policy in Lead-Up to COP-29
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, with the Enel Foundation, has released a paper titled "Good Spillover, Bad Spillover: industrial Policy, Instrument Choice, and the Political Economy of Decarbonization," as background to an official side-event panel at the Twenty-Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP-29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). COP-29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 11 – 22, 2024. The side event will be held
Thursday, November 14, 2024
4:45 – 6:15 pm
Side Event Room 2
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Michael Mehling authored the paper and will speak at the side event. Mehling is Professor at the University of Strathclyde School of Law and Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The side event and the preparation of the paper are supported by — and the side event co-organized with — the Enel Foundation. This is the twelfth such collaboration between the Harvard Project and the Enel Foundation in connection with a UNFCCC Conference of the Parties. Also co-sponsoring the event are MIT and Foundation Environment – Law Society.
The full paper and a two-page summary may be downloaded by clicking on the red buttons at the top of this page.
Mehling, Michael A. “Good Spillover, Bad Spillover? Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political Economy of Decarbonization.” Discussion Paper ES 2024-12. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, November 2024.