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Robert Stavins

Climate activists protest outside this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech. Activists and officials are strugling to find a way forward for last year's landmark Paris Agreement on climate change after the US presidential election.

With Trump heading to the White House, global climate activists look for hope in US cities and states

Environment

President-elect Trump has promised to pull the US out of the new global climate agreement. That left attendees at the latest climate talks looking to US states and cities to turn up their game on fighting the climate crisis.

China Adopts Cap-and-Trade to Curb Emissions

Climate Economics

The Politics of Capping Emissions

Cap and Trade by Numbers

The World

New Source Commentary

Officials from the Northeast, as well as environmental groups are preparing to battle the Bush administration when it announces what are expected to be major revisions to the Clean Air Act. Professor Robert Stavins, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, says those who want clean air should support some type of change.

The World

Global Warming Commentary

Commentator Robert Stavins, who directs the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, offers a plan he believes could help the US take the lead in global climate change negotiations.