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Equity and Climate Policy

October 7, 2008

Ananth Chikkatur and Shoibal Chakravarty will present a new framework for allocation of a global carbon reduction target among nations.

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September 29, 2008

"Trouble In Paradise – The Widening Gulf Gas Deficit"

Middle East Economic Survey

By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative

DI Fellow Justin Dargin addresses the gas shortage in the Gulf in this op-ed.

DOE

September 30, 2008

Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges

By U.S. and Russian Committees on Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, National Research Council and Russian Academy of Sciences

"This report is intended for all those who are concerned about the need for assuring fuel for new reactors and at the same time limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. This audience includes the United States and Russia, other nations that currently supply nuclear material and technology, many other countries contemplating starting or growing nuclear power programs, and the international organizations that support the safe, secure functioning of the international nuclear fuel cycle, most prominently the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Professor Matthew Bunn served on the Committee on Internationalization of the Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle, a National Academy of Sciences–Russian Academy of Sciences joint committee which produced this report.

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September 30, 2008

"The Fragility of the Global Nuclear Order"

The Boston Globe

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School and Ernesto Zedillo

Belfer Center Director Graham Allison joins Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, in cautioning that the global nuclear order is "under severe stress" and that the International Atomic Energy Agency must be strengthened in order to save the nonproliferation regime. The Nonproliferation Treaty, they argue, "is eroding to the point of 'irreversibility' beyond which there could be a 'cascade of proliferation.'"

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September 29, 2008

"Problems run deeper than Wall Street"

The Korea Herald

By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University

"With less than two months remaining before America's presidential election, much attention is focused on the state of the American economy and the challenges that it will present to the next president."

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September 12, 2008

"Priority Energy Issues"

By John M. Deutch, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

John Deutch, MIT professor and member of the Belfer Center’s Board of Directors and International Council, testified on September 12, 2008 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’ Senate Energy Summit on the importance of taking several simultaneous energy-related actions to achieve a sustainable future.

Deutch noted that the U.S. economy is not meeting the three great energy challenges the country faces – moving away from a petroleum based economy, reducing CO₂ emissions, and managing foreign policy consequences of energy dependence.  He proposed seven priority actions the country should take - ranging from establishing a charge for greenhouse gas emissions to expanding the use of commercial nuclear power.

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September 25, 2008

Feldstein: Everyone has a Stake in Preventing the Financial Markets from Collapsing

By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Martin Feldstein, president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Belfer Center's Board of Directors, gave his take on the most pressing issues facing the United States' economy in an interview with Canada's Business News Network.