CED’s energy and environment program is bringing together business executives to contribute to the development of economic solutions to climate change. The project has dedicated staff and Trustees, guided by project advisors Dr. Richard Cooper (Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University) and Dr. William D. Nordhaus (Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University) to research and identify financial mechanisms such as incentives, carbon taxes, or viable alternative energy resources to solve key climate change issues. Dr. Cooper has written widely on the topic of global warming over the last decade and has plumbed international economics for the last forty years. Dr. Nordhaus has critically examined the economics of climate change for well over a decade and on a wide variety of economic matters since the 1960s. Two of his recent books include: Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change and Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming.

CED’s energy and environment program has a long history that began in 1974, with a policy statement entitled Achieving Energy Independence: a Statement on National Policy. This policy statement precipitated the publishing of a series of reports on closely related issues; International Economic Consequences of High Priced Energy (1975); Energy Prices and Public Policy (1982); and What Price Clean Air? A Market Approach to Energy and Environmental Policy (1993).

For more information please contact our project director: Joseph Minarik, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at joe.minarik@ced.org.

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