International Cooperation in East Asia to Address Climate Change
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements has released a volume of fifteen briefs examining approaches to international cooperation in East Asia to address climate change.
Research
The Welfare Consequences of Taxing Carbon
For EMF 32, we applied a new version of our Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model (IGEM) based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Towards Sustainability in Water-Energy Nexus: Ocean Energy for Seawater Desalination
Seawater desalination is an important option for addressing the world's water supply challenges.
Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good.
Tailoring Meridional and Seasonal Radiative Forcing by Sulfate Aerosol Solar Geoengineering
We study the possibility of designing solar radiation management schemes to achieve a desired meridional radiative forcing (RF) profile using a two-dimensional chemistry-transport-aerosol model.
An Efficient Western Energy Imbalance Market with Conflicting Carbon Policies.
A reform of the Western Energy Imbalance Market should target the right problem. Import leakage is a problem; resource shuffling is a solution.
Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but it has long been observed that these technologies ma
Six Principles for Public Energy Innovation Programs
Last month, the European Union marked the tenth year of its Strategic Energy Technology Plan.
The Efficiency Consequences of Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses to Energy Fiscal Policies
The behavioral responses to taxes and subsidies are often subject to various behavioral biases and transaction costs—what we define as “microfrictions.” We develop a theoretical framework to show how
The Design of Environmental Markets: What Have We Learned from Experience with Cap and Trade?
This article reviews the design of environmental markets for pollution control over the past 30 years, and identifies key market-design lessons for future applications.
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