Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Climate Change"
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The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic emission mitigation policies could cause adverse “competitiveness” impacts on domestic manufacturers as they lose market share to foreign competitors and ... -
Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)The information structure of the climate change policy collaboration problem necessitates the design of institutions to enhance public knowledge about nations’ commitments, policies, and outcomes. The international community ... -
Enabling a Nuclear Revival — And Managing its Risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin examine the conditions needed for nuclear energy to grow on a scale large enough for it to be a significant part of the world’s response to climate change. They consider the safety, security, ... -
An Expanded Three-Part Architecture for Post-2012 International Climate Policy
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)We describe the major features of a post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated ... -
International Workshop on Research, Development, and Demonstration to Enhance the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting Climate and Energy Challenges
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011)Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is likely to need in the 21st century, or a major part in meeting other energy challenges. ... -
Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries, and the absence of ... -
Politically Feasible Emissions Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(Oxford University Press, 2012)A new climate change treaty must address three current gaps: the absence of emissions targets extending far into the future; the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries; and the ... -
Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering ... -
The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled After 100 Years
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies ... -
The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions ... -
Promoting Clean Energy in the American Power Sector
(Brookings Institution, 2011)Despite bipartisan interest in advancing American energy policy, comprehensive energy and climate legislation fell short in the Senate last year after passing in the House of Representatives in 2009. The difficulty of ... -
Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger “mega-catastrophes,” severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across broad regions. This paper first discusses the state of current ... -
The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was ... -
Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries, one budget period at a time, as envisioned at the December 2011 negotiations in ... -
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ...