{"id":177130,"date":"2015-12-06T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webadmin.news-harvard.go-vip.net\/gazette\/gazette\/?p=177130"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:46:25","slug":"harvards-stavins-stowe-compare-climate-change-policies-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/12\/harvards-stavins-stowe-compare-climate-change-policies-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard&#8217;s Stavins, Stowe compare climate change policies in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"403\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stavinsparis_605.jpg\" width=\"605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">\u201cI\u2019m convinced from the research that we\u2019ve done at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements \u2026 that the linkage of regional, national and sub-national policies \u2026 can be part of the answer,\u201d said Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and faculty director of the Harvard Project. Stavins spoke at a side-event panel discussion in Paris on Friday. \n<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tScience &amp; Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tHarvard&#8217;s Stavins, Stowe compare climate change policies in Paris\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"author wp-block-post-author__name\">\n\t\tDoug Gavel\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">\n\t\t\tHarvard Kennedy School Communications\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2015-12-06\">\n\t\t\tDecember 6, 2015\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t4 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tEvent co-sponsored by Harvard Project on Climate Agreements\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-545cfd60-8df2-433b-b663-904e9253a82a\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/111615_climate_037_605_2.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/\">\n\t\t\tScience &amp; Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/11\/optimism-on-u-n-climate-talks\/\">Optimism on U.N. climate talks<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2015-11-17\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovember 17, 2015\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6 min read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>PARIS \u2014 The role of market mechanisms for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and the relationship between climate change policy and international trade were the topics of a side-event panel discussion on Friday at the Conference of the Parties (COP21), the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris. The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a>, addressed a variety of issues related to the emissions-reduction targets that countries are putting forward as part of a new agreement to be concluded in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, titled \u201cDialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies,\u201d featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project; Harvard Project Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/experts\/762\/robert_c_stowe.html\">Robert Stowe<\/a>; and several other scholars in the field.\u00a0The discussion was moderated by Zou Ji, deputy director-general of China\u2019s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p>Stavins\u2019 presentation focused on the role of market mechanisms in climate policy. He outlined three case studies of the successful implementation in recent years of cap-and-trade programs in the United States. These include California\u2019s cap-and-trade system, which aims to reduce California\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Stavins called the California system \u201cbroad and ambitious\u201d and stated that the California experiment offers some important lessons for climate negotiators in Paris.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEven from an economic perspective, carbon pricing may be necessary, but it\u2019s not sufficient,\u201d Stavins said. \u201cSome non-pricing pricing policies can be complementary to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-cap-and-trade-works\">cap-and-trade system<\/a> \u2026 but there are some other non-pricing policies that can conflict.\u201d \u00a0Though a sub-national emissions-trading system, Stavins discussed how it could be a model for larger-scale emissions trading policies under the new Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins also discussed the advantages of linking cap-and-trade systems, as California and Quebec have done (with Ontario joining the linked system soon).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced from the research that we\u2019ve done at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements \u2026 that the linkage of regional, national and sub-national policies \u2026 can be part of the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins went out to outline two important ways that the Paris negotiators can facilitate linkage: \u201cThe first is do no harm. If poorly designed, the Paris agreement could actually inhibit effective linkage,\u201d he remarked. A successful agreement, Stavins said, will include \u201ca simple statement that countries can achieve parts of their emissions-reduction goals by financing or otherwise facilitating actions in other jurisdictions [that is\u2014through linkage].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations \u2014 focusing on the relationship between climate change policy and the assessment of post-2020 emissions targets \u2014 were from NCSC researchers Fu Sha and Qi Yue.\u00a0Stowe responded to Qi\u2019s presentation, discussion several motivations for comparing the highly disparate targets that countries were offering under the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the discussion were Chen Ji from NCSC; Professor Duan Maosheng of Tsinghua University; Thomas Brewer of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; and Professor Wang Mou, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The panel in Paris built upon a workshop hosted by the NSCS and co-sponsored by the Harvard Project in Beijing in June 2015. Read about the workshop <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/publication\/25678\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For additional coverage from the Harvard Kennedy School, visit its website. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hkscop21paris.tumblr.com\/\">Kennedy School&#8217;s Tumblr<\/a> for more updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COP21 is still on track as countries drop their more unfeasible ambitions, notes Faculty Director of the Harvard Project Robert Stavins on the COP21 blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cop21-is-still-on-track-as-countries-drop-their-more-unfeasible-ambitions-51918\">&#8220;Inside analysis from the Paris talks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A side-event panel titled \u201cDialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies\u201d on Friday at the Conference of the Parties (COP21) featured Robert Stavins, faculty director of the Harvard Project and Harvard Project Manager Robert Stowe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105622744,"featured_media":177155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gz_ga_pageviews":0,"gz_ga_lastupdated":"","document_color_palette":"crimson","author":"Doug Gavel","affiliation":"Harvard Kennedy School Communications","_category_override":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1387],"tags":[8025,8546,9216,12463,15846,16024,26762],"gazette-formats":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-177130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-chinas-national-center-for-climate-change-strategy-and-international-cooperation","tag-climate-change","tag-cop21","tag-environment","tag-harvard-kennedy-school","tag-harvard-project-on-climate-agreements","tag-paris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvard&#039;s Stavins, Stowe compare climate change policies in Paris &#8212; 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Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/11\/optimism-on-u-n-climate-talks\/\">Optimism on U.N. climate talks<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2015-11-17\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovember 17, 2015\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6 min read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\r\n<p>PARIS \u2014 The role of market mechanisms for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and the relationship between climate change policy and international trade were the topics of a side-event panel discussion on Friday at the Conference of the Parties (COP21), the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris. The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a>, addressed a variety of issues related to the emissions-reduction targets that countries are putting forward as part of a new agreement to be concluded in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, titled \u201cDialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies,\u201d featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project; Harvard Project Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/experts\/762\/robert_c_stowe.html\">Robert Stowe<\/a>; and several other scholars in the field.\u00a0The discussion was moderated by Zou Ji, deputy director-general of China\u2019s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p>Stavins\u2019 presentation focused on the role of market mechanisms in climate policy. He outlined three case studies of the successful implementation in recent years of cap-and-trade programs in the United States. These include California\u2019s cap-and-trade system, which aims to reduce California\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Stavins called the California system \u201cbroad and ambitious\u201d and stated that the California experiment offers some important lessons for climate negotiators in Paris.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEven from an economic perspective, carbon pricing may be necessary, but it\u2019s not sufficient,\u201d Stavins said. \u201cSome non-pricing pricing policies can be complementary to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-cap-and-trade-works\">cap-and-trade system<\/a> \u2026 but there are some other non-pricing policies that can conflict.\u201d \u00a0Though a sub-national emissions-trading system, Stavins discussed how it could be a model for larger-scale emissions trading policies under the new Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins also discussed the advantages of linking cap-and-trade systems, as California and Quebec have done (with Ontario joining the linked system soon).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced from the research that we\u2019ve done at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements \u2026 that the linkage of regional, national and sub-national policies \u2026 can be part of the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins went out to outline two important ways that the Paris negotiators can facilitate linkage: \u201cThe first is do no harm. If poorly designed, the Paris agreement could actually inhibit effective linkage,\u201d he remarked. A successful agreement, Stavins said, will include \u201ca simple statement that countries can achieve parts of their emissions-reduction goals by financing or otherwise facilitating actions in other jurisdictions [that is\u2014through linkage].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations \u2014 focusing on the relationship between climate change policy and the assessment of post-2020 emissions targets \u2014 were from NCSC researchers Fu Sha and Qi Yue.\u00a0Stowe responded to Qi\u2019s presentation, discussion several motivations for comparing the highly disparate targets that countries were offering under the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the discussion were Chen Ji from NCSC; Professor Duan Maosheng of Tsinghua University; Thomas Brewer of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; and Professor Wang Mou, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The panel in Paris built upon a workshop hosted by the NSCS and co-sponsored by the Harvard Project in Beijing in June 2015. Read about the workshop <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/publication\/25678\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For additional coverage from the Harvard Kennedy School, visit its website. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hkscop21paris.tumblr.com\/\">Kennedy School's Tumblr<\/a> for more updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COP21 is still on track as countries drop their more unfeasible ambitions, notes Faculty Director of the Harvard Project Robert Stavins on the COP21 blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cop21-is-still-on-track-as-countries-drop-their-more-unfeasible-ambitions-51918\">\"Inside analysis from the Paris talks<\/a>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n","innerContent":["\r\n<p>PARIS \u2014 The role of market mechanisms for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and the relationship between climate change policy and international trade were the topics of a side-event panel discussion on Friday at the Conference of the Parties (COP21), the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris. The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a>, addressed a variety of issues related to the emissions-reduction targets that countries are putting forward as part of a new agreement to be concluded in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, titled \u201cDialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies,\u201d featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project; Harvard Project Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/experts\/762\/robert_c_stowe.html\">Robert Stowe<\/a>; and several other scholars in the field.\u00a0The discussion was moderated by Zou Ji, deputy director-general of China\u2019s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p>Stavins\u2019 presentation focused on the role of market mechanisms in climate policy. He outlined three case studies of the successful implementation in recent years of cap-and-trade programs in the United States. These include California\u2019s cap-and-trade system, which aims to reduce California\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Stavins called the California system \u201cbroad and ambitious\u201d and stated that the California experiment offers some important lessons for climate negotiators in Paris.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEven from an economic perspective, carbon pricing may be necessary, but it\u2019s not sufficient,\u201d Stavins said. \u201cSome non-pricing pricing policies can be complementary to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-cap-and-trade-works\">cap-and-trade system<\/a> \u2026 but there are some other non-pricing policies that can conflict.\u201d \u00a0Though a sub-national emissions-trading system, Stavins discussed how it could be a model for larger-scale emissions trading policies under the new Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins also discussed the advantages of linking cap-and-trade systems, as California and Quebec have done (with Ontario joining the linked system soon).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced from the research that we\u2019ve done at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements \u2026 that the linkage of regional, national and sub-national policies \u2026 can be part of the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins went out to outline two important ways that the Paris negotiators can facilitate linkage: \u201cThe first is do no harm. If poorly designed, the Paris agreement could actually inhibit effective linkage,\u201d he remarked. A successful agreement, Stavins said, will include \u201ca simple statement that countries can achieve parts of their emissions-reduction goals by financing or otherwise facilitating actions in other jurisdictions [that is\u2014through linkage].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations \u2014 focusing on the relationship between climate change policy and the assessment of post-2020 emissions targets \u2014 were from NCSC researchers Fu Sha and Qi Yue.\u00a0Stowe responded to Qi\u2019s presentation, discussion several motivations for comparing the highly disparate targets that countries were offering under the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the discussion were Chen Ji from NCSC; Professor Duan Maosheng of Tsinghua University; Thomas Brewer of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; and Professor Wang Mou, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The panel in Paris built upon a workshop hosted by the NSCS and co-sponsored by the Harvard Project in Beijing in June 2015. 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The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a>, addressed a variety of issues related to the emissions-reduction targets that countries are putting forward as part of a new agreement to be concluded in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, titled \u201cDialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies,\u201d featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project; Harvard Project Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/experts\/762\/robert_c_stowe.html\">Robert Stowe<\/a>; and several other scholars in the field.\u00a0The discussion was moderated by Zou Ji, deputy director-general of China\u2019s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p>Stavins\u2019 presentation focused on the role of market mechanisms in climate policy. He outlined three case studies of the successful implementation in recent years of cap-and-trade programs in the United States. These include California\u2019s cap-and-trade system, which aims to reduce California\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Stavins called the California system \u201cbroad and ambitious\u201d and stated that the California experiment offers some important lessons for climate negotiators in Paris.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEven from an economic perspective, carbon pricing may be necessary, but it\u2019s not sufficient,\u201d Stavins said. \u201cSome non-pricing pricing policies can be complementary to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-cap-and-trade-works\">cap-and-trade system<\/a> \u2026 but there are some other non-pricing policies that can conflict.\u201d \u00a0Though a sub-national emissions-trading system, Stavins discussed how it could be a model for larger-scale emissions trading policies under the new Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins also discussed the advantages of linking cap-and-trade systems, as California and Quebec have done (with Ontario joining the linked system soon).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced from the research that we\u2019ve done at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements \u2026 that the linkage of regional, national and sub-national policies \u2026 can be part of the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins went out to outline two important ways that the Paris negotiators can facilitate linkage: \u201cThe first is do no harm. If poorly designed, the Paris agreement could actually inhibit effective linkage,\u201d he remarked. A successful agreement, Stavins said, will include \u201ca simple statement that countries can achieve parts of their emissions-reduction goals by financing or otherwise facilitating actions in other jurisdictions [that is\u2014through linkage].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations \u2014 focusing on the relationship between climate change policy and the assessment of post-2020 emissions targets \u2014 were from NCSC researchers Fu Sha and Qi Yue.\u00a0Stowe responded to Qi\u2019s presentation, discussion several motivations for comparing the highly disparate targets that countries were offering under the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the discussion were Chen Ji from NCSC; Professor Duan Maosheng of Tsinghua University; Thomas Brewer of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; and Professor Wang Mou, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The panel in Paris built upon a workshop hosted by the NSCS and co-sponsored by the Harvard Project in Beijing in June 2015. 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The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a>, addressed a variety of issues related to the emissions-reduction targets that countries are putting forward as part of a new agreement to be concluded in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, titled \u201cDialogue on the Comparison of Climate Change Policies,\u201d featured Robert Stavins, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> (HKS) and faculty director of the Harvard Project; Harvard Project Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/experts\/762\/robert_c_stowe.html\">Robert Stowe<\/a>; and several other scholars in the field.\u00a0The discussion was moderated by Zou Ji, deputy director-general of China\u2019s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p>Stavins\u2019 presentation focused on the role of market mechanisms in climate policy. He outlined three case studies of the successful implementation in recent years of cap-and-trade programs in the United States. These include California\u2019s cap-and-trade system, which aims to reduce California\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Stavins called the California system \u201cbroad and ambitious\u201d and stated that the California experiment offers some important lessons for climate negotiators in Paris.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEven from an economic perspective, carbon pricing may be necessary, but it\u2019s not sufficient,\u201d Stavins said. \u201cSome non-pricing pricing policies can be complementary to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-cap-and-trade-works\">cap-and-trade system<\/a> \u2026 but there are some other non-pricing policies that can conflict.\u201d \u00a0Though a sub-national emissions-trading system, Stavins discussed how it could be a model for larger-scale emissions trading policies under the new Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins also discussed the advantages of linking cap-and-trade systems, as California and Quebec have done (with Ontario joining the linked system soon).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced from the research that we\u2019ve done at the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements \u2026 that the linkage of regional, national and sub-national policies \u2026 can be part of the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stavins went out to outline two important ways that the Paris negotiators can facilitate linkage: \u201cThe first is do no harm. If poorly designed, the Paris agreement could actually inhibit effective linkage,\u201d he remarked. A successful agreement, Stavins said, will include \u201ca simple statement that countries can achieve parts of their emissions-reduction goals by financing or otherwise facilitating actions in other jurisdictions [that is\u2014through linkage].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations \u2014 focusing on the relationship between climate change policy and the assessment of post-2020 emissions targets \u2014 were from NCSC researchers Fu Sha and Qi Yue.\u00a0Stowe responded to Qi\u2019s presentation, discussion several motivations for comparing the highly disparate targets that countries were offering under the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the discussion were Chen Ji from NCSC; Professor Duan Maosheng of Tsinghua University; Thomas Brewer of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; and Professor Wang Mou, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The panel in Paris built upon a workshop hosted by the NSCS and co-sponsored by the Harvard Project in Beijing in June 2015. Read about the workshop <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/publication\/25678\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For additional coverage from the Harvard Kennedy School, visit its website. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hkscop21paris.tumblr.com\/\">Kennedy School's Tumblr<\/a> for more updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COP21 is still on track as countries drop their more unfeasible ambitions, notes Faculty Director of the Harvard Project Robert Stavins on the COP21 blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cop21-is-still-on-track-as-countries-drop-their-more-unfeasible-ambitions-51918\">\"Inside analysis from the Paris talks<\/a>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n"}},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":177395,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/12\/how-climate-agreement-impacts-business\/","url_meta":{"origin":177130,"position":0},"title":"How climate agreement impacts business","author":"harvardgazette","date":"December 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The private sector \u2014 from large corporations to small businesses \u2014 will undoubtedly be impacted by whatever international agreement emerges from the U.N. 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