Robert Stowe
Executive Director, Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions
Co-Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Robert C. Stowe is Executive Director of the – a three-year initiative supported by the . He is also Co-Director of the , a University-wide initiative based in Harvard Kennedy School (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø). Dr. Stowe has participated, through the Harvard Project, in fourteen annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. He was a Contributing Author to – and managing editor of – in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. With the Harvard Project team, Dr. Stowe has designed agendas for and co-organized 28 research workshops and policy roundtables since 2008 (not including panels organized at each of the above-noted COPs). Topics include the United States sulfur dioxide emissions trading system, adoption of energy-efficiency technology, China’s national carbon-pricing system, the elaboration and implementation of the Paris Agreement, sub-national climate-change policy in North America, and the governance of solar geoengineering. Dr. Stowe has co-edited, with Robert Stavins (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø), five volumes of expert briefs based on some of these research workshops. Dr. Stowe is a consultant to the Article 6 Support Facility of the Asian Development Bank. He was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Sustainable Partnership for Rooftop Solar Acceleration in Bharat (SUPRABHA) – an initiative of the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the World Bank, and the Bank of India – and a member of the World Bank’s Technical Expert Group for Supporting Article 6 [of the Paris Agreement] Work. He has taught courses on climate-change policy at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø and co-designs the curriculum for ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø executive-education programs on climate-change and energy policy. He also designed curricula for a custom one-week workshop on climate and energy policy for a major energy company that has run annually for ten years. Dr. Stowe holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in physics from Harvard College.