Consumers’ Response to State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs
Through an evaluation of the 2009 Recovery Act's State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, this paper examines consumers' response to energy efficiency rebates.
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US Energy Diplomacy in an Age of Energy Abundance
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy.
Real World Headwinds for Trump Climate Change Policy
It has now been 12 months since Donald J.
Market Mechanisms and the Paris Agreement
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements has released a volume of seventeen briefs summarizing research on options for elaborating the Paris Agreement's Article 6, the evolution of market-based syste
The Political Economy of Carbon Pricing Policy Design
This paper examines the choice between—and design of—CO2 cap-and-trade and tax policies through a political-economy lens.
The Right Way to Do Regime Change in Venezuela
Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump hasn’t held back when speaking about the political crisis in Venezuela.
Where Big Oil Meets Big Green
At the turn of the century, environmentalists and “Big Oil” appeared to be moving toward one another.
Rescue US Energy Innovation
President Trump has proposed severe cuts to US government spending on energy research, development and demonstration, but Congress has the ‘power of the purse’ and can rescue US energy innovation.
Disrupting Opec: How American Ingenuity and “Tight Oil” Is Fracturing the All-Powerful Cartel
The new energy abundance driven by unconventional oil and gas production is upending global politics on a wide range of issues.
Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the countries of the world.
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