Five Principles for Biofuels; A Price Collar in the Next International Climate Agreement; more

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  January 20, 2010
From the Environment and Natural Resources Program
  Certification Strategies, Industrial Development and a Global Market for Biofuels
  By Ricardo Hausmann and Rodrigo Wagner

In a discussion paper released by Harvard University's Sustainability Science Program and the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, Ricardo Hausmann and Rodrigo Wagner lay out five organizing principles for maximizing the development impact of a global biofuel market.

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From the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
  Achieving Comparable Effort through Carbon Price Agreements
  By Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter Wilcoxen

The authors argue that a post-Kyoto international climate agreement should combine a price collar with a policy focused on long-run cumulative emissions targets. Such a mechanism optimally balances the environmental objective with the need to ensure that commitments remain feasible. Using plausible assumptions, the example in this paper illustrates how a price collar does this.

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  Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?
  By Steven E. Miller and Scott D. Sagan

Will the growth of nuclear power lead to increased risks of nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear terrorism? Will the nonproliferation regime be adequate to ensure safety and security in a world more widely and heavily invested in nuclear power? Steven E. Miller and Scott D. Sagan have one simple and clear answer to these questions: It depends.

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Ron Krate

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Jan 21, 2010, 10:11:26 AM1/21/10
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