Course Projects

This policy lab project (Heller, Roston, Seiger, LAW 809B) builds on Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center (STC) and Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) research and analysis on structuring effective carbon markets. For their final project, small teams of students helped develop this vision for coordinated carbon markets. Watch the video above or click the links below to view their final presentations.

• Insurance in Voluntary Carbon Markets (Pawan Gupta, Adam Kulick, Julia Sekula)
• The State of Current Markets: A Study of Offsets and a Legal Framework for ELMs (Drew Edwards, Lyna Kim, Callie Walker)
• VCM, ELM, and MMRV: Engineered Removals, Nature-Based Removals, and Market Implications (Cam Chisholm, Bennett Johnson, Korey Mui)
• The Scientific Measurement of Carbon (Abigail Andrews)
• Role of Carbon Markets in Avoided Deforestation: A Case Study of Ghana’s REDD+ Program (Haley Prout)
• Scaling Coal Phase-out with Carbon Market Financing (Claudio Guardado, Noor I. Noor Hasnan)

Climate: Politics, Finance and Infrastructure Final Projects

For their final project, students in Climate: Politics, Finance and Infrastructure (Seiger, Gordon, Law 2513) delivered a suite of compelling financial and policy interventions to achieve large-scale climate impact. Check out their great ideas below.