About: Raymond J. Kopp

Raymond J. Kopp
Raymond J. Kopp is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy at Resources for the Future (RFF). He has been a member of the RFF research staff since 1977 and has held a variety of officer and management positions within the institution. His current studies focus on U.S. domestic greenhouse-gas mitigation and adaptation policy, U.S. foreign policy as it pertains to international negotiations on climate change, and deforestation and degradation in tropical countries. His expertise has influenced the design of state and federal policies as well as those of foreign governments. Kopp also has a long-standing research interest in cost-benefit analysis and integrated assessment. He led the first examination of the cost of major U.S. environmental regulations in a full, general equilibrium, dynamic context using an approach that is now widely accepted as state-of-the-art.

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