Spring 2007 Student Researchers Selected
Students and staff enter new phase of research, having completed scoping phase in fall 2006.
February 1, 2007 (Durham, NC)—The Climate Change Policy Partnership rang in the new year with a new research agenda, and a few new faces on the project. In addition to fifteen students continuing on the project from previous semesters, four new students have joined the project: Jean Lee, a second-year Master of Environmental Management Student; Alyssa Platt, a graduate student in Economics at Duke, and Brandon Warner and Liz Willetts, first-year Environmental Management graduate students.
“This spring’s group of students shows how far the CCPP has come in the brief time it’s been in existence,” commented Christopher Galik, CCPP and Center on Global Change Research Analyst. “To get this much talent and variety of interests and experience—moving forward, this project is poised to make significant contributions to an already impressive body of climate change research.”
The first phase of the project, a synthesis document on the current state of knowledge of carbon policy, alternative energy technologies, and economic incentives, was completed in the fall. The next phase will include original, applied research on topics such as policy options to overcome barriers to advanced energy technologies, carbon allowance allocation strategies and impacts, and climate co-effects of biological sequestration.
The Climate Change Policy Partnership began in fall 2005 through a $2.5 million gift from Duke Energy. Duke Energy is a diversified energy company, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, with a portfolio of natural gas and electric businesses, both regulated and unregulated, and an affiliated real estate company. ConocoPhillips, an international, integrated energy company, and MeadWestvaco, a global packaging company, have also joined the CCPP as corporate partners. For more information on the Climate Change Policy Partnership, please visit the website at http://www.env.duke.edu/institute/ccpp/