The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10573/09-17-Greenhouse-Gas.pdf [From the CBO Director's Blog]  For example, CBO concludes that the cap-and-trade provisions of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, would reduce GDP below what it would otherwise have been—by roughly ¼ to ¾ percent in 2020 and by between 1 and 3½ percent in 2050. … Continue reading »

Technology in the UN Climate Change Negotiations: Moving Beyond Abstraction

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University Policy Brief / by Morgan Bazilian http://tinyurl.com/yacakdu [Abstract] This brief considers the technology negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) within the wider context of low-carbon energy technology. In doing so, it focuses on how technology issues can be effectively embedded within a potential agreement … Continue reading »

Transforming Energy Innovation

Issues in Science and Technology (forthcoming Fall 2009, v26 n1 pp. 57-64) by Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, Laura Diaz Anadon and Ambuj D. Sagar [published elsewhere on the Belfer Center website as, "Institutions for Energy Innovation: A Transformational Challenge" .] http://tinyurl.com/ydx8r78 [Abstract] “The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting … Continue reading »

An Expanded Three-Part Architecture for Post-2012 International Climate Policy

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University Discussion Paper / by Shelia M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins http://tinyurl.com/y9k2m73 [Abstract]  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 but meaningful ways; an emphasis … Continue reading »

Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 PPM CO2 Concentrations

Belfer Center, Kenndy School, Harvard University Discussion Paper / by Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19568/global_climate_policy_architecture_and_political_feasibility.html [Abstract]  The gaps in the Kyoto Protocol that most badly need to be filled are: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries, and … Continue reading »