Resources for the Future (RFF)

A joint working paper on the market-design effects of per-tonne evidentiary disclosure, modelled with RFF's carbon-market equilibrium tools. Trellison provides the implementation data; RFF provides the welfare analysis.

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Dr. Raymond Kopp (Senior Fellow) and Dr. Dallas Burtraw (Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow)
Senior Fellows
Resources for the Future (RFF)

Recent work

Kopp is an SCC (social cost of carbon) authority; authored 'A Landmark Update to the Social Cost of Carbon' (Aug 2023). Burtraw is the Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow focused on electricity-sector carbon pricing and RGGI economics; testified to Senate EPW on American Innovation and Manufacturing Act (March 2023).

Signals the recipient responds to

Rigorous welfare-economic modelling
Regulatory-design expertise (Burtraw on RGGI)
Direct Congressional-testimony track record

Organisational context

Positions

RFF is the leading US economic-analysis think tank on environmental policy. Its carbon-pricing work shapes federal and state implementation.

Active initiatives

Social Cost of Carbon; carbon-pricing design; electricity-sector decarbonisation.

Pressures

Policy community demands rigorous welfare analysis; RFF's imprimatur moves federal rulemaking.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: A joint RFF Discussion Paper modelling the market-design welfare effects of per-tonne evidentiary disclosure — Trellison provides implementation data, RFF provides the welfare analysis — produces the single most credible economic argument for property-based disclosure. Burtraw's RGGI expertise makes the RGGI integration a natural case study.

Why now: Federal procurement cycle + RGGI 2030 reforms.

The ask: Joint RFF-Trellison Discussion Paper. Follow-on Congressional testimony co-briefing.

Think tank: Resources for the Future (RFF)
Target program: Carbon Pricing Initiative / Land Use and Climate
Key contacts: RFF Fellows on carbon markets; Richard Newell (President, former EIA Administrator)

Why this think tank

RFF is the leading US economic-analysis think tank on environmental policy. Their work on carbon-pricing instrument design is directly adjacent to proof-pack cost-transparency requirements.

The ask

Deliverable

An RFF working paper in the Discussion Papers series, with Trellison as co-author.

Context materials Trellison can provide

Proof-pack schema specification (one-page and full technical versions)
Reinhard & Planavsky 2026 npj Climate Action paper summary
Roster of researchers available for joint work
Alpha proof-pack instances for inspection
Corporate-buyer and registry-operator contacts expressing interest in integration testing