Next Steps in Domestic Climate Policy: Issues and Innovations

Date & time

Mar 18, 2009, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Location

Weill Hall

Dallas Burtraw

Dallas Burtraw is Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research - rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences - on environmental, energy, and natural resource issues. He is a 1986 alumnus of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and received his BS in 1980 in community economic development from the University of California-Davis. Burtraw earned his PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in 1989.

Burtraw's research interests include the design of environmental regulation, the costs and benefits of environmental regulation, and the regulation and restructuring of the electricity industry. Recently, Burtraw investigated the effects on the value of assets of electricity generation companies of alternative approaches to implementing emissions permit trading programs. He is evaluating the use of emission trading to achieve carbon emission reductions in the EU. He also has helped to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of trading programs for nitrogen dioxide in the eastern United States and sulfur dioxide trading programs under the Clean Air Act Amendments. He also contributed to the valuation of the benefits of ecological improvements due to reduced acidification in the Adirondacks.

Barry Rabe

Discussants:

Barry Rabe
Barry Rabe is a Professor of Public Policy in the Ford School and also holds appointments in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Program in the Environment. He is a non-resident senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Much of his recent research examines state and regional development of policies to reduce greenhouse gases, which has been conducted in collaboration with the Brookings Institution and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. In 2006, Rabe became the first social scientist to receive a Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of his contribution to both scholarship and policy making. Recent publications include a 2004 Brookings book, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Evolving Politics of American Climate Change Policy, which received the 2005 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association in recognition of the best book published on environmental politics and policy in the past three years.

Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie
Meredith Fowlie is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Assistant Professor of Economics. Her general research interests lie in environmental economics and empirical industrial organization. Her current work focuses on market-based environmental regulation, electricity markets, technology adoption, and the economics of climate change mitigation. At the Ford School, Meredith teaches courses in microeconomics and regulation. She received undergraduate and masters degrees from Cornell University and her PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

MODERATOR: Carl P. Simon, Professor of Economics, Mathematics, and Public Policy; Director, Program for Study of Complex Systems.