Past Events
April 13, 2009
Proposed federal rules aimed at promoting clean energy, combating climate change and creating new "green-collar" jobs will be the focus of a policy forum featuring several of the key Washington players who are working to get them approved. Congress will soon be taking up legislation proposed by Chairman Henry A. Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J. Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee and Select Committee on Global Warming.
April 09, 2009
Prof. Paul Moorcroft of Harvard will present a seminar in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics/Hydrology series sponsored by the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Abstract: Terrestrial ecosystem models are the principal tools to assess the impacts of climate change on vegetation.
April 09, 2009
Speaker: Professor Amy Landis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. Abstract: In most cases, biofuels exhibit environmental benefits in the form of fewer greenhouse gas emissions and less nonrenewable fossil fuels usage when compared to their petro-counterparts. Research on the sustainability and environmental implications of these renewable fuels has been measured primarily based on reductions in emissions related to the carbon cycle (greenhouse gases and fossil fuels).
April 08, 2009
Professor Gene Skolnikoff will lead a discussion of the interaction of science, technology and politics. Prof. Skolnikoff is in expert in the field of science and public policy, especially the interaction of science and technology with international affairs. He served as the Head of the Political Science Department at MIT from 1970-1974, and as Director for the MIT Center for International Studies from 1972 to 1987.
April 07, 2009
Speaker: Prof. Juan-Pablo Montero is at the Economics Department of the Ponti?cia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and a Research Associate at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. In this seminar he will discuss recent work described in two papers: (1) On Coase and Hotelling; and (2) Market power in an exhaustible resource market: The case of storable pollution permits. (Montero's website)
April 06, 2009
Speaker: Prof. Soren Anderson, Michigan State University. Prof. Anderson's research spans a broad range of topics in energy and environmental economics with a current focus on emerging markets for biofuels. He holds appointments in the Department of Economics and the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. He previously served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 2005-2006 and at Resources for the Future prior to beginning his graduate studies. (Prof. Anderson's website)