It gives me great pleasure to welcome Harvard Professor of environmental economics Robert Stavins to our community.

I suspect the economists in our group are already familiar with Professor Stavins. Space only allows me to list a small sampling of his accomplishments (his full bio is here). He is Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.  He was also a Lead Author of the Second and Third Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Professor Stavins' research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, including examinations of: market-based policy instruments; regulatory impact analysis; innovation and diffusion of pollution-control technologies; environmental benefit valuation; policy instrument choice under uncertainty; competitiveness effects of regulation; depletion of forested wetlands; political economy of policy instrument choice; and costs of carbon sequestration.

We're excited to be able to offer Professor Stavins' insights here on The Energy Collective. Please join me in extending a warm welcome.