Robert N. Stavins is one of the world’s leading thinkers on climate change policy. His research focuses on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, including examinations of market-based policy instruments, regulatory impact analysis, innovation and diffusion of pollution-control technologies, environmental benefit valuation, policy instrument choice under uncertainty, competitiveness effects of regulation, depletion of forested wetlands, political economy of policy instrument choice, and costs of carbon sequestration.