Podcasts about climate agreements

Max Bearak, energy policy and global climate negotiations reporter for the New York Times shared his perspectives on the recently concluded 29th Conference of the Parties (COP 29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the newest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.” The podcast is produced by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and hosted by Robert Stavins, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements.

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Robert Stavins and Professor Daniel Jacob of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are at the forefront of new efforts to monitor and control methane, a potent greenhouse gas. It used to seem like methane wasn't such a big deal. It was that other climate gas, the one that was the butt of cow flatulence jokes and that only stayed in the atmosphere for a decade or so. But since important global warming targets are now just 7 years away and science has developed a better understanding of both methane's pervasiveness and its potent role in warming the atmosphere, it's now very much on the front burner for increasingly concerned climate policymakers. The good news is that the science of monitoring methane emissions has taken huge leaps forward recently, thanks to advances in supercomputing, weather modeling, and satellite imaging, to the point where we could soon have daily real-time monitoring and measuring of methane emissions around the globe. Our two guests are playing an important role in that effort. Robert Stavins is an economist and the director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Project and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. Daniel Jacob was named the world's top environmental scientist last year by Research.com and his groundbreaking work has been instrumental in creating methane monitoring systems so precise they can track emissions to a specific company or another individual source—from space. Both say that the need to address the methane issue is urgent and that the countries of the world now have the wherewithal to get methane emissions under control. There are hopeful signs, including a major international agreement called the Global Methane Pledge, but the big question will be whether global leaders have the will to follow through.Robert Stavins is the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Programs in Public Policy and in Political Economy and Government, Cochair of the MPP/MBA and MPA/ID/MBA Joint Degree Programs. He is the Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, former Chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Economics Advisory Board, and a member of the editorial councils of scholarly periodicals. His research has examined diverse areas of environmental economics and policy and has appeared in a variety of economics, law, and policy journals, as well as several books. Stavins directed Project 88, a bipartisan effort cochaired by former Senator Timothy Wirth and the late Senator John Heinz to develop innovative approaches to environmental problems. He has been a consultant to government agencies, international organizations, corporations, and advocacy groups. He holds a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a PhD in economics from Harvard.Daniel Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Harvard University. His research covers a wide range of topics in atmospheric chemistry, from air quality to climate change, and has led the development of the GEOS-Chem global 3-D model of atmospheric composition. In 2022, he won both the Best Scientist Award and the Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award from Research.com as the top environmental scientist in the world. Jacob has also served as a mission scientist on eight NASA aircraft missions around the world and was awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2003. Jacob has trained over 100 Ph.D. students and postdocs over the course of his career.  In 1994 he was made a Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) and was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Caltech. Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Public Affairs and Communications is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.The co-producer of PolicyCast is Susan Hughes. Design and graphics support is provided by Lydia Rosenberg, Delane Meadows and the OCPA Design Team. Social media promotion and support is provided by Natalie Montaner and the OCPA Digital Team. 

with Minister Eamon Ryan, live from COP26

Why should we pay attention to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference? What are the key goals, local, regional and international demands on the future of environment and populations? In this part I, we explore the basics. Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram and Twitter @womanhood_ir, subscribe to our newsletter here and join our Patreon community here https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir Listen to related episodes: 46. The Deep Feminine 49. Gender & Environmental Justice 51. Feminist Climate Justice 73. Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice 94. IPCC's 2021 Report - A Commentary on Media, Humans & Earth's Future Recommended links for this episode: IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2021 Report IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas: Regional information NASA's A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter Office Website: 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow Women & Gender Constituency COP 26 Key Demands Gender justice and climate action: A feminist analysis of forest and climate policy-making Climate Action Tracker: Net Zero Targets Methodology Climate Justice Toolkit for Youth Countries call for urgent action on biodiversity with 'Kunming Declaration' Campaign Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements

Ahead of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland from November 1-12 we speak with Mike Smith from the Australians For War Powers Reform campaign about the importance of including military pollution in climate agreements. World Beyond War have a petition that you and your organisation can sign 'Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements.' Mia Pepper and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott talk to us about the upcoming online forum 'Nuclear:No climate solution'.In this online forum, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder who has been working over 30 years to highlight the impacts of uranium mining, Scott Ludlam, former Australian Greens Senator, anti-nuclear and climate activist and Mia Pepper, nuclear researcher and expert will discuss the reasons why nuclear power is not the 'green' solution to climate change. The event is brought to you by Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective in collaboration with Blockade IMARC and starts at 7 pm Melbourne time.  Please join us! Register here: www.melbournefoe.org.au/nuclear_no_climate_solution Share the event via FB.

In our latest episode, we welcome a special guest, Dr. Robert Stowe, executive director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and co-director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He helps us debunk common myths and preconceptions regarding climate change, and tackle some big questions and niche areas - is the onus on the government or us as individuals to make an impact on climate change, to how does agriculture play a role? Tune in to hear Dr. Stowe’s take on it all and his work!

第1期：全国碳市场开启的前夜：理想与现实之间（上）本期我们关注的话题是中国最重要的市场化的气候变化应对政策——全国碳交易市场。从十二五规划开始碳排放权交易试点开始，中国的碳市场经过十年稳步推进，今年全国发电行业的碳交易市场有望正式上线。这期话题我们就聊聊碳税、碳市场政策的理论基础、在中国和世界的发展，以及碳税和碳市场到底作用几何。本期是这个话题的上半部分。【本期内容】（上半部分）第一部分：碳税和碳市场的理论依据02:20 碳税和碳市场的环境经济学理论基础：外部性以及解决方案12:20 碳税 vs. 碳市场：相同与不同第二部分：全国碳市场的发展和设计17:03 中国为什么选择碳市场？18:30 中国碳市场的十年蓄力过程22:20 中国碳市场的经验和启发29:35 中国碳市场为什么要用强度基准？42:30 中国碳市场为什么当前只覆盖电力部门？46:38 中国碳市场如何分配碳配额？49:22 中国碳市场可以炒碳价吗？52:50 中国碳市场碳配额的抵消制度56:30 中国碳市场与其他环境政策的关系参考文献：Stavins, R. N. (2020). The future of US carbon-pricing policy. Environmental and energy policy and the economy, 1(1), 8-64. Goulder, L. H., & Schein, A. R. (2013). Carbon taxes versus cap and trade: a critical review. Climate Change Economics, 4(03), 1350010. Weitzman, M L (1974), “Prices vs. Quantities”, Review of Economic Studies 41(4): 477-91.Goulder, L. H., Morgenstern, R. D., Munnings, C., & Schreifels, J. (2017). China's national carbon dioxide emission trading system: An introduction. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 6(2).Zhang, J., Wang, Z., & Du, X. (2017). Lessons learned from China's regional carbon market pilots. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 6(2), 19-38Stavins, Robert N. Robert C. Stowe, eds. Subnational Climate Change Policy in China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, February 2020.Pizer, W. A., & Zhang, X. (2018, May). China's New National Carbon Market. In AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 108, pp. 463-67). Goulder, L. H., Long, X., Lu, J., & Morgenstern, R. D. (2019). China's Unconventional Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: The Wide-Ranging Impacts of an Implicit Output Subsidy (No. w26537). National Bureau of Economic Research.Yi, L., Li, Z. P., Yang, L., Liu, J., & Liu, Y. R. (2018). Comprehensive evaluation on the “maturity” of China's carbon markets. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, 1336-1344.Zhu, J., Fan, Y., Deng, X., & Xue, L. (2019). Low-carbon innovation induced by emissions trading in China. Nature communications, 10(1), 1-8.碳笑风生关注全球和中国的能源转型、气候变化和可持续发展问题，特别是中国实现碳达峰、碳中和的科学、技术、政策、政治、经济、社会和文化问题。大家可以在小宇宙播客、喜马拉雅、网易云音乐等平台收听我们，我们同步更新的微信公众号“环境科学与政策”会有更多的专业讨论。大家也可以通过留言或在微信公众号“环境科学与政策”联系我们。开场、转场音乐来自The Podcast Host and Alitu: The Podcast Maker app.

第1期：全国碳市场开启的前夜：理想与现实之间（上）本期我们关注的话题是中国最重要的市场化的气候变化应对政策——全国碳交易市场。从十二五规划开始碳排放权交易试点开始，中国的碳市场经过十年稳步推进，今年全国发电行业的碳交易市场有望正式上线。这期话题我们就聊聊碳税、碳市场政策的理论基础、在中国和世界的发展，以及碳税和碳市场到底作用几何。本期是这个话题的上半部分。【本期内容】（上半部分）第一部分：碳税和碳市场的理论依据02:20 碳税和碳市场的环境经济学理论基础：外部性以及解决方案12:20 碳税 vs. 碳市场：相同与不同第二部分：全国碳市场的发展和设计17:03 中国为什么选择碳市场？18:30 中国碳市场的十年蓄力过程22:20 中国碳市场的经验和启发29:35 中国碳市场为什么要用强度基准？42:30 中国碳市场为什么当前只覆盖电力部门？46:38 中国碳市场如何分配碳配额？49:22 中国碳市场可以炒碳价吗？52:50 中国碳市场碳配额的抵消制度56:30 中国碳市场与其他环境政策的关系参考文献：Stavins, R. N. (2020). The future of US carbon-pricing policy. Environmental and energy policy and the economy, 1(1), 8-64. Goulder, L. H., & Schein, A. R. (2013). Carbon taxes versus cap and trade: a critical review. Climate Change Economics, 4(03), 1350010. Weitzman, M L (1974), “Prices vs. Quantities”, Review of Economic Studies 41(4): 477-91.Goulder, L. H., Morgenstern, R. D., Munnings, C., & Schreifels, J. (2017). China's national carbon dioxide emission trading system: An introduction. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 6(2).Zhang, J., Wang, Z., & Du, X. (2017). Lessons learned from China's regional carbon market pilots. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 6(2), 19-38Stavins, Robert N. Robert C. Stowe, eds. Subnational Climate Change Policy in China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, February 2020.Pizer, W. A., & Zhang, X. (2018, May). China's New National Carbon Market. In AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 108, pp. 463-67). Goulder, L. H., Long, X., Lu, J., & Morgenstern, R. D. (2019). China's Unconventional Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: The Wide-Ranging Impacts of an Implicit Output Subsidy (No. w26537). National Bureau of Economic Research.Yi, L., Li, Z. P., Yang, L., Liu, J., & Liu, Y. R. (2018). Comprehensive evaluation on the “maturity” of China's carbon markets. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, 1336-1344.Zhu, J., Fan, Y., Deng, X., & Xue, L. (2019). Low-carbon innovation induced by emissions trading in China. Nature communications, 10(1), 1-8.碳笑风生关注全球和中国的能源转型、气候变化和可持续发展问题，特别是中国实现碳达峰、碳中和的科学、技术、政策、政治、经济、社会和文化问题。大家可以在小宇宙播客、喜马拉雅、网易云音乐等平台收听我们，我们同步更新的微信公众号“环境科学与政策”会有更多的专业讨论。大家也可以通过留言或在微信公众号“环境科学与政策”联系我们。开场、转场音乐来自The Podcast Host and Alitu: The Podcast Maker app.

第1期：全国碳市场开启的前夜：理想与现实之间（上）本期我们关注的话题是中国最重要的市场化的气候变化应对政策——全国碳交易市场。从十二五规划开始碳排放权交易试点开始，中国的碳市场经过十年稳步推进，今年全国发电行业的碳交易市场有望正式上线。这期话题我们就聊聊碳税、碳市场政策的理论基础、在中国和世界的发展，以及碳税和碳市场到底作用几何。本期是这个话题的上半部分。【本期内容】（上半部分）第一部分：碳税和碳市场的理论依据02:20 碳税和碳市场的环境经济学理论基础：外部性以及解决方案12:20 碳税 vs. 碳市场：相同与不同第二部分：全国碳市场的发展和设计17:03 中国为什么选择碳市场？18:30 中国碳市场的十年蓄力过程22:20 中国碳市场的经验和启发29:35 中国碳市场为什么要用强度基准？42:30 中国碳市场为什么当前只覆盖电力部门？46:38 中国碳市场如何分配碳配额？49:22 中国碳市场可以炒碳价吗？52:50 中国碳市场碳配额的抵消制度56:30 中国碳市场与其他环境政策的关系参考文献：Stavins, R. N. (2020). The future of US carbon-pricing policy. Environmental and energy policy and the economy, 1(1), 8-64. Goulder, L. H., & Schein, A. R. (2013). Carbon taxes versus cap and trade: a critical review. Climate Change Economics, 4(03), 1350010. Weitzman, M L (1974), “Prices vs. Quantities”, Review of Economic Studies 41(4): 477-91.Goulder, L. H., Morgenstern, R. D., Munnings, C., & Schreifels, J. (2017). China's national carbon dioxide emission trading system: An introduction. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 6(2).Zhang, J., Wang, Z., & Du, X. (2017). Lessons learned from China's regional carbon market pilots. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 6(2), 19-38Stavins, Robert N. Robert C. Stowe, eds. Subnational Climate Change Policy in China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, February 2020.Pizer, W. A., & Zhang, X. (2018, May). China's New National Carbon Market. In AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 108, pp. 463-67). Goulder, L. H., Long, X., Lu, J., & Morgenstern, R. D. (2019). China's Unconventional Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: The Wide-Ranging Impacts of an Implicit Output Subsidy (No. w26537). National Bureau of Economic Research.Yi, L., Li, Z. P., Yang, L., Liu, J., & Liu, Y. R. (2018). Comprehensive evaluation on the “maturity” of China's carbon markets. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, 1336-1344.Zhu, J., Fan, Y., Deng, X., & Xue, L. (2019). Low-carbon innovation induced by emissions trading in China. Nature communications, 10(1), 1-8.碳笑风生关注全球和中国的能源转型、气候变化和可持续发展问题，特别是中国实现碳达峰、碳中和的科学、技术、政策、政治、经济、社会和文化问题。大家可以在小宇宙播客、喜马拉雅、网易云音乐等平台收听我们，我们同步更新的微信公众号“环境科学与政策”会有更多的专业讨论。大家也可以通过留言或在微信公众号“环境科学与政策”联系我们。开场、转场音乐来自The Podcast Host and Alitu: The Podcast Maker app.

Welcome to 2021! In our first episode of the new year we take time to reflect on the events and impacts of 2020. Then we take a optimistic glance to the future of our planet, and what our hopes for it are. Join us in what will hopefully be a new and greener year!

My guest for this episode is Robert Falkner. Robert is a TRIUM Academic Director, an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Before his time at the LSE, Robert held academic positions at the Universities of Oxford, Kent and Essex, as well as a visiting scholar position at Harvard. In this episode we discuss how moral reasoning and more narrowly defined state self-interest have both impacted the design and implementation of international agreements on climate. We also speculate on what a re-engaged USA, and a newly engaged China may mean for the future of such agreements. Using the same normative/self-interest framework, we explore the likely future role of private enterprise in implementing and driving sustainability. We eventually agree that normative and self-interested rationales will likely have to be – and hopeful will be – aligned for consequential change to occur. Whether this occurs in time to avoid disaster, is the critical question.Related Material:-- Robert's latest book: Falkner, Robert (2019), ‘The Unavoidability of Justice - and Order - in International Climate Politics: From Kyoto to Paris and Beyond’, in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, (21) 2: 270-78. https://www.robertfalkner.org/s/Falkner-2019-Unavoidability-of-Justice-and-Order-in-International-Climate-Politics.pdf -- Robert's forthcoming book: Falkner, Robert (2021) Environmentalism and Global International Society (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, vol. 156). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/environmentalism-and-global-international-society/8185AA689F106BAEEAD7E2EE0A4A233E-- Robert's recommended book: Oreskes, N. & Conway, E. M. (2012), Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Bloomsbury.-- Work mentioned: Shue, H. (1992). The unavoidability of justice. In: The international politics of the environment: Actors, Interests, and Institutions. Edited by A. Hurrell and B. Kingsbury. Oxford, Clarendon Press: 373-397. Host: Matt Mulford | Guest: Robert Falkner | Editor: Théophile Letort See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The New York Times called it one of the worst outcomes in a quarter-century of climate negotiations. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said the international community "lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation and finance to tackle the climate crisis” at the recent UN Climate Summit in Madrid.But Harvard Kennedy School Professor Robert Stavins says global climate negotiators still accomplished something important last month at the COP25 conference—because of what they didn't do. Instead of approving lax rules full of loopholes that big polluting countries like Brazil and Australia were, negotiators held the line and pushed off a decision until next year's meeting in Scotland.Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development and director of both the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, tells host Thoko Moyo that getting workable economic solutions in place to combat the climate crisis is essential, because fundamentally the crisis was caused by economic activity. Stavins says his latest research shows that both carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes can work, as long as they are well-designed.For more on Professor Stavins' thoughts on the COP25 summit and his research, check out his blog: An Economic View of the Environment. PolicyCast is produced by Ralph Ranalli and Susan Hughes.

This week, Colin & James discuss the positive reaction to Wonder Woman, film studios blaming Rotten Tomatoes for terrible box office returns (Baywatch, Pirates 5, King Arthur), The Mummy's 15 certificate, Corbyn vs May, the SNP's manifesto, Trump pulling the US out of the Paris climate change agreement and - of course - 'covfefe'.

After years of mediocre negotiations on an international agreement to limit future climate change, it is easy to be cynical about the viability of a global strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What do these large conferences really mean for the future of the planet? Our correspondent reports back from the December 2015 COP21 meeting […] (Visited 3,117 times, 4 visits today) The post [ Episode #93 // Climate Agreements ] appeared first on Extraenvironmentalist.

Professor Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements out of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, explains why the COP21 in Paris is a critical step in addressing anthropogenic global climate change. He discusses the history of past climate summits and lays out both his markers for success and potential impediments to a deal. More from Professor Stavins and other Kennedy School scholars can be found at http://hkscop21paris.tumblr.com.

Peter Cramton is a professor both at the University of Maryland and the European University Institute, here he gives his opinion on how to promote international climate agreements. An interview by Christoph Graf, Research Assistant at FSR Climate, recorded 22 October during FSR Climate 2015 Annual Conference. “The coalition of the willing has to include the United States, Europe, India, China, Brazil… all the large countries who are emitting large amounts of carbon” “I think that the political will is growing, and what will is growing… and what will help it grow is an effective instrument”

This seminar was given by Christina Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on September 27, 2013. The event was hosted by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.