【Speaker】Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, Co-Directors, Harvard Project on InternationalClimate Agreements

【Topic】Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World

【Time】14:30-16:00, 2008-3-27, Thursday

【Venue】Shunde 401, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】Department of Economics, Tsinghua University

Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World

Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins

Co-Directors, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Joseph E. Aldy, Fellow at Resources for the Future, and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will discuss the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, which they co-direct. The goal of the Project is to help identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. The discussion will focus on opportunities for improving future policy design that can inform ongoing international negotiations about the successor to theKyotoagreement. The Project takes as its starting point Dr. Aldy’s and Prof. Stavins’ edited volume,Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World,published by Cambridge University Press, with contributions from leading scholars in economics, law, and international relations.The book examines the merits of six alternative international architectures for global climate policy.Aldy and Stavins will review and synthesize the wide-ranging menu of options for post-Kyoto climate policy presented in their book and in subsequent research the Project is conducting.