by David Timmons, Jonathan Harris and Brian Roach. This module covers issues that are central to the transition to renewable energy, including the potential of solar energy, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower and other low-carbon energy sources. It stresses the crucial role of energy efficiency in facilitating a transition to renewables, and discusses issues including electrification, […]
Jonathan Harris and Anne-Marie Codur presented a paper entitled After COP28: The Bumpy Road to Net Zero at the 13th conference of the United States Society for Ecological Economics in Schenectady, N.Y., June 6-9, 2024. The presentation discusses the outcomes of the November 2023 United Nations climate conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. […]
Jonathan M. Harris and Anne-Marie Codur presented at the United States Society for Ecological Economics Conference on The Post-Covid Economy: Centering Justice, Sustaining Ecosystems June 21-24, 2022. Following the COP26 Glasgow climate conference in 2021, there remains a substantial gap between pledged and needed global emissions reductions. In addition to reducing emissions, closing this gap requires increasing carbon […]
GDAE Senior Research Associate Jonathan M. Harris presented a paper on “Responding to Economic and Ecological Deficits” at the Eastern Economic Association 45th Annual Conference in New York City on March 1-3, 2019. The paper calls for a more sophisticated analysis of ecological deficits and a balanced assessment of economic deficits in the context of […]
GDAE Researcher Brian Roach participated in the 2015 Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute for Graduate Students Workshop (TELI-G 2015). The event brought together graduate students from numerous disciplines to learn about environmental issues in an interdisciplinary framework. Dr. Roach gave a talk on “Rationality and Objectivity in Science and Policy” on January 16, 2015.
GDAE Researcher Jonathan M. Harris spoke at the International Society for Ecological Economics conference in Reykjavik, Iceland on August 13, 2014.
GDAE Researcher Jonathan Harris presented on “Greening Macroeconomics: New Thinking, New Teaching” at the MesoAmerican Ecological Economic Association in San Jose Costa Rica on March 6th and the Eastern Economics Association on March 7th, 2014. View the PowerPoint with Spanish translations.
On October 2, 2013, GDAE Researcher Anne-Marie Codur gave a presentation that explores various examples in the Global South as in the Global North of the re-localization of the economy, including sustainable management of local ecosystems and natural resources, more equitable forms of economic enterprises such as cooperatives, and re-invention of money through local currencies.
GDAE Senior Researcher Jonathan Harris participated in a panel addressing “green” macroeconomic policy issues at the 18th Annual Tulane Summit on Environmental Law and Policy, which took place February 22-23, 2013 at Tulane University Law School. The summit brought together numerous experts from academia, business, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies to discuss a wide range of environmental issues. The above PowerPoint […]