Richard Newell is president and CEO of Resources for the Future, a nonprofit research institution that improves environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through economic research and policy engagement. He was previously the Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at Duke University, where he directed its energy initiative and is now an adjunct professor. From 2009 to 2011 Newell was administrator of the US Energy Information Administration, and from 2005 to 2006 he was senior economist for energy and environment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. A board member or advisor at several institutions including the National Academy of Sciences, he co-chaired a formative National Academies study on the social cost of greenhouse gases.
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In the past year, there has been historic investment in the design of effective, efficient, and equitable climate policies. In this conversation, panelists discuss the Biparti...