Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime

Introduction
Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro and Jaime de Melo
About the authors
Scott Barrett is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at
Columbia University in New York City, with appointments in the School of International
and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute. He taught previously at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC and, before
that, at the London Business School. He has also been a visiting scholar at Princeton,
Yale, and Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Environment
and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making and Why Cooperate? The
Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, both published by Oxford University Press.
He received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Carlo Carraro is Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice. He holds a PhD from Princeton University. He was President of the University
of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005
to 2008. In 2008, he was elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of
the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was
re-elected in 2015 for a second term. He is Scientific Director of the Fondazione Eni
Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance
(ICCG) and member of the executive board of the EuroMediterranean Center on
Climate Change (CMCC). He is Co-Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform
(GGKP) Advisory Committee and Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics
and Policy, the most important international journal in its field.
Jaime de Melo, Emeritus Professor at the University of Geneva, is Scientific Director
at Ferdi, an invited professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, and a
non-resident scholar at Brookings. He worked at USAID from 1972 to 1976, taught at
Georgetown University from 1976-80 and at the University of Geneva from 1993-2012.
From 1980 to 1993, he held various positions in the research Department at the World
Bank. He serves on several editorial boards and was editor-in-chief of the World Bank
Economic Review, 2005-2010.
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