{"id":177395,"date":"2015-12-11T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T23:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webadmin.news-harvard.go-vip.net\/gazette\/gazette\/?p=177395"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:36:56","slug":"how-climate-agreement-impacts-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/12\/how-climate-agreement-impacts-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How climate agreement impacts business"},"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\/giandomenico-magliano605.jpg\" width=\"605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">In a Wednesday side panel hosted by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Giandomenico Magliano, the Italian ambassador to France, stressed that clear rules, simple policies, and effective governance will be important.<\/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\tHow climate agreement impacts business\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=\"2015-12-11\">\n\t\t\tDecember 11, 2015\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t3 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\tHarvard Project on Climate Agreements holds panel discussion on topic\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-9ffcf1ab-c5de-4233-9c62-3465cc06490b\">\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\/12\/stavinsparis_605.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\/12\/harvards-stavins-stowe-compare-climate-change-policies-in-paris\/\">Harvard&#8217;s Stavins, Stowe compare climate change policies in Paris<\/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=\"2015-12-06\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDecember 6, 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\t4 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 private sector \u2014 from large corporations to small businesses \u2014 will undoubtedly be impacted by whatever international agreement emerges from the U.N. Climate Change Conference taking place in Paris, but opinions vary as to how burdensome and costly those impacts will be. Participants in a side panel hosted Wednesday by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a> (HPCA) at COP21, shared their perspectives on the most important challenges businesses will face post-Paris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/project\/56\/harvard_project_on_climate_agreements.html\">Robert Stavins<\/a>, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and faculty director of HPCA, moderated the event, which included opening remarks delivered by Gian Luca Galletti, the minister of environment for Italy. In his remarks, Galletti stressed the need for climate negotiators to leverage market mechanisms in order to measure and monitor national goals for reducing carbon emissions, in particular as those goals change over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that we have clear ideas as to what are clear ambitions are in the future,\u201d Galletti said, pointing to the need to set an aggregate target of lowering the growth of global temperatures to no more than 1.5 degrees \u201cin order to sustain the future of the entire planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Stavins summarized a recent research report authored by Associate Professor Joseph Aldy, which examines tools and institutions for assessing national targets, saying that such tools are critically important in order to allow for \u201cmeaningful comparison of effort\u201d across countries.<\/p>\n<p>Simone Mori, Head of European Affairs for the Enel Group, argued that a climate agreement must take into account the fast pace of technological change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology revolution over the past five, eight years has really been dramatic, and it really changes the picture,\u201d he said, especially for developing countries \u201cfrom Latin America to South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to update the [national climate] pledges according to the evolution of the technologies,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Swartz, who manages international climate policy for the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), said that the agreement should include three important features for business: a process by which countries can cooperate on emission reductions so that they can transfer emissions credits across borders; strong and clear accounting provisions; and some form of a carbon emissions crediting system.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Ambassador to France, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/harvardkennedyschool\/giandomenico-magliano-mpa-1981\">Giandomenico Magliano, M.P.A. \u201981<\/a>, stressed that clear rules, simple policies, and effective governance will be important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy harmonizing standards, we may achieve efficiency, we may achieve lower CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists fielded a number of questions from those in the audience, including one from a young woman who identified herself as a \u201ctypical Chinese teenager,\u201d who asked how to prevent politics from trumping environmental needs in the crafting of a climate agreement. Mori responded, saying that while \u201cpolitics is a complex game \u2026 the direction [of climate policy] is very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Giandomenico Magliano, the Italian ambassador to France and a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, M.P.A. &#8217;81), <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/harvardkennedyschool\/giandomenico-magliano-mpa-1981\">speaks with Doug Gavel<\/a>, Harvard Kennedy School Communications, at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP21, in Paris on Dec. 9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0The side event was co-sponsored by HPCA and the Enel Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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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In his remarks, Galletti stressed the need for climate negotiators to leverage market mechanisms in order to measure and monitor national goals for reducing carbon emissions, in particular as those goals change over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that we have clear ideas as to what are clear ambitions are in the future,\u201d Galletti said, pointing to the need to set an aggregate target of lowering the growth of global temperatures to no more than 1.5 degrees \u201cin order to sustain the future of the entire planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Stavins summarized a recent research report authored by Associate Professor Joseph Aldy, which examines tools and institutions for assessing national targets, saying that such tools are critically important in order to allow for \u201cmeaningful comparison of effort\u201d across countries.<\/p>\n<p>Simone Mori, Head of European Affairs for the Enel Group, argued that a climate agreement must take into account the fast pace of technological change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology revolution over the past five, eight years has really been dramatic, and it really changes the picture,\u201d he said, especially for developing countries \u201cfrom Latin America to South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to update the [national climate] pledges according to the evolution of the technologies,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Swartz, who manages international climate policy for the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), said that the agreement should include three important features for business: a process by which countries can cooperate on emission reductions so that they can transfer emissions credits across borders; strong and clear accounting provisions; and some form of a carbon emissions crediting system.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Ambassador to France, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/harvardkennedyschool\/giandomenico-magliano-mpa-1981\">Giandomenico Magliano, M.P.A. \u201981<\/a>, stressed that clear rules, simple policies, and effective governance will be important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy harmonizing standards, we may achieve efficiency, we may achieve lower CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists fielded a number of questions from those in the audience, including one from a young woman who identified herself as a \u201ctypical Chinese teenager,\u201d who asked how to prevent politics from trumping environmental needs in the crafting of a climate agreement. Mori responded, saying that while \u201cpolitics is a complex game \u2026 the direction [of climate policy] is very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Giandomenico Magliano, the Italian ambassador to France and a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, M.P.A. '81), <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/harvardkennedyschool\/giandomenico-magliano-mpa-1981\">speaks with Doug Gavel<\/a>, Harvard Kennedy School Communications, at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP21, in Paris on Dec. 9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0The side event was co-sponsored by HPCA and the Enel Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","innerContent":["\r\n<p>PARIS \u2014 The private sector \u2014 from large corporations to small businesses \u2014 will undoubtedly be impacted by whatever international agreement emerges from the U.N. Climate Change Conference taking place in Paris, but opinions vary as to how burdensome and costly those impacts will be. 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