Rob #1 interviewed on NPR recently;
EPA Issues New Standards For Coal-Burning Plants : NPR.Rob #2 interviewed for the upcoming Trinidad energy conference. The conference will also feature his op-ed on the CDM mechanism, which I helped with.
"What if there was an international policy on how countries should deal with emissions? Robert C. Stowe, executive director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Manager of the Harvard Project on international climate agreements said there must be partnering when it comes to solving the problem of climate change. He contends though, that the greatest challenge to collective action lies in designing an international policy. Substantiating his point and referring to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) he said though he was disappointed with the outcome, the Copenhagen Accord, which came out of the conference was: “an important step forward for international climate policy. Commenting further on UNFCCC he said the results “fell short of expectations at the Copenhagen Summit last December. Many were hoping for solid progress toward an agreement to succeed and go beyond the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Instead, the Copenhagen Accord simply recognises climate change as a challenge and concluded that action is needed to limit global temperature increases.
A manager of the Harvard Project on climate agreements since 2007, Dr Stowe said the project’s goal is to identify public policy options for addressing global climate change. The project conducts research on policy architecture, key design elements and institutional dimensions of domestic climate policy and a post-2012 international climate policy regime. Referring to the Caribbean, Dr Stowe said emissions from the Caribbean are not really a big part of the climate change problem “There are opportunities in the Caribbean for expanding participation in so-called "offset programs"--the most important of which is the Clean Development Mechanism,” he said. Dr Stowe would be part of a panel discussion on DAY Two."
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