Barbara Haya, Ph.D.

Researcher on international and domestic climate change policy, with a focus on carbon trading, carbon offsetting and their alternatives

Consultant for the Union of Concerned Scientists

Berkeley, California

bhaya at berkeley dot edu

Research Interests

Carbon trading is being implemented on international, national and sub-national scales in most places where greenhouse gas emissions targets are enacted. The appeal of carbon trading is its perceived efficiency, lowing the cost of climate mitigation by allowing the market to find the least expensive reductions. My PhD dissertation examined the efficiency and effectiveness of three different carbon trading mechanisms in three specific contexts, with a focus on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism in the Indian power sector, and comparative studies with California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and sectoral crediting in China's cement sector.

Publications

Barbara Haya and Payal Parekh (2011) Hydropower in the CDM: Examining Additionality and Criteria for Sustainability, Energy and Resources Group Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley

Barbara Haya (2010 December) Carbon Offsetting: An Efficient Way to Reduce Emissions or to Avoid Reducing Emissions? An Investigation and Analysis of Offsetting Design and Practice in India and China, PhD Dissertation, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley 

Barbara Haya (2009) Measuring emissions against an alternative future: Fundamental flaws in the structure of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, Energy and Resources Group Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley

Barbara Haya, Malini Ranganathan, Sujit Kirpekar (2009) Barriers to sugar mill cogeneration in India: Insights into the structure of post-2012 climate financing instruments. Climate and Development 1:66-81:

Barbara Haya (2007) Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is subsidizing hydro developers and harming the Kyoto Protocol, International Rivers, Berkeley, CA:

Alex E. Farrell, Daniel Sperling, et al (2007) A low carbon fuel standard for California, Part I: Technical Analysis & Part II: Policy Analysis, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center

Lara M. Kueppers, Paul Baer, John Harte, Barbara Haya, Laura E. Koteen, and Molly E. Smith (2003) A decision matrix approach to evaluating the impacts of land-use activities undertaken to mitigate climate change . Climatic Change, 63:247-257

Barbara Haya (2002) Evaluation of World Bank Public Participation Policies - Lessons for the Clean Development Mechanism. Master’s project: MS degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group.

Barbara Haya, Antonia V. Herzog, Chalotorn Kansuntisukmongkol, Laurie E. Koteen, Joanna Lewis (2000) Public Participation in the CDM and JI: Precedents Set by International Finance Institutions. Presented at a side event of the sixth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, The Hague, November 2000

Paul Baer, John Harte, Barbara Haya, Antonia V. Herzog, John Holdren, Nathan E. Hultman, Daniel M. Kammen, Richard B. Norgaard, Leigh Raymond (2000) Equity and Greenhouse Gas Responsibility. Science, 289:2287.