FEEM is pleased to announce a lecture by Phil Sharp, President of Resources for the Future, one of the two awardees of the FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize in Environmental Economics.The FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize, aimed to reward a researcher or a group of researchers who have most significantly contributed to the development of the field of environmental and resource economics over the last 20 years, was indeed assigned in June 2010 to Resources for the Future (RFF), and Prof. Martin L. Weitzman, Harvard University. The ceremony took place during a plenary session of the Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Montreal, Canada.
RFF was recognized as a leading think tank on natural resource and environmental economics worldwide, providing in particular an important contribution to the design and implementation of environmental and economic policies. Acknowledged as the organization that got environmental and resource economics off the ground in the ’50s and ’60s, RFF remains highly influential and productive in the field of research, acting as an effective interface between research, policy and capacity building.
On May 24 2011, Phil Sharp, representing RFF will deliver in Milan a lecture entitled “IS THE UNITED STATES TAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE?”, presenting and discussing the US position on climate change.
Introduction by Carlo Carraro, FEEM and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Please note that on June 1, Prof. Martin L. Weitzman (Harvard University) will deliver in Venice a lecture entitled “An Economist Grapples with Catastrophic Climate Change”, discussing the economics of catastrophic climate change from a theoretical perspective. For further information please visit our website.
Abstract of the lecture by Phil Sharp
Former U.S. Congressman Phil Sharp, President of Resources for the Future, will provide a perspective on American state and federal climate policies and on developments in U.S. energy markets which will impact greenhouse gas emissions. He will also speculate about the outcome of current policy disputes. The failure of the last Congress to adopt a comprehensive policy was a major setback in the drive for significant cuts in emissions; however, various policies in place will lead to emissions reductions.
Speaker
Phil Sharp has been president of Resources for the Future since 2005. His career in public service includes ten terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana and a lengthy tenure on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. During his 20-year congressional tenure from 1975 to 1995, Sharp took key leadership roles in the development of landmark energy legislation. He helped to develop a critical part of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, was a driving force behind the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and served on several House committees. Currently, Sharp serves on the board of directors of the Duke Energy Corporation and as vice chair on the board of the Energy Foundation. He was appointed to The National Academies’ Committee on America’s Climate Choices and to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. He serves on the National Petroleum Council which is a federal advisory committee, on the Planetary Skin Institute’s Global Advisory Council, and is a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative External Advisory Board as well as the International Advisory Board of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. In addition, he chairs the External Advisory Committees for both the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study and the MIT Future of Solar Energy Study. He recently served as the congressional chair for the National Commission on Energy Policy. Sharp received his Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University.
