2025 Congress of the Latin American and the Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (LAERE)

17 October 2024By

 

The Congress of the Latin American and the Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (LAERE2025) will take place on March 19-21, 2025. The conference will be held in person in the vibrant city of Bogotá, Colombia, including some hybrid events as part of the programme. The conference is hosted by the Department of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and co-organized by the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, JEEM.

Call for papers and more details: website

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UKNEE envecon 2025

16 October 2024By

 

The UK Network for Environmental Economists (UKNEE) is glad to announce envecon 2025, the annual UKNEE Conference. Envecon 2025 will take place at the Royal Society in London (UK) on March 15, 2025.

Open call for papers

UKNEE encourages papers and posters on any topic with a focus on:

  • the application of environmental and behavioural economics (through methods such as valuation, appraisal, natural capital accounts, and economic instruments) to;
  • studies of green finance, land, fresh water, marine environments, air quality, climate, chemicals, and beyond with regards to the workings of any economic sector or policy area.

For more details, please access the full call for papers here.

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Thirteenth IAERE Annual Conference

11 October 2024By

 

The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists – IAERE is glad to announce its Thirteenth Annual Conference, to be held at the University of Roma Tre on February 20-21, 2025. During the Conference, the Association is granting its IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award, a recognition given to the two best papers presented by young economists at the Association’s Annual Conference.

The call for papers is now open and submissions on all relevant topics related to Environmental and Natural
Resource Economics are warmly invited.
Deadline: November 15, 2024

All information is available on the web page IAERE ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

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AURÖ Workshop for Young Researchers in Environmental and Resource Economics

4 October 2024By

 

On behalf of the Standing Field Committee on Environmental and Resource Economics of the German Economic Association (AURÖ), the EAERE member University of Mannheim and ZEW Mannheim jointly organise the 2025 AURÖ Workshop for Young Researchers in Environmental and Resource Economics. The workshop will take place at ZEW in Mannheim on February 19-21, 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organisers have launched a call for papers (available here). Submissions are expected from young researchers in environmental and resource economics, particularly PhD students and postdocs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The workshop aims to pro vide a platform to present research, engage in professional discussions and network with peers from German-speaking countries.
Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024

Visit the event webpage for more info.

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Schools

EAERE Interdisciplinary School in Resource and Environmental Economics 2025 on Sustainable Energy and Chemistry

27 September 2024By

 

EAERE Interdisciplinary School in Resource and Environmental Economics 2025 on Sustainable Energy and Chemistry

Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat. The EU has the ambition to become the first climate neutral continent, by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 55% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2030 and to have net-zero emissions by 2050. Both the energy and chemistry sectors play a significant role in reaching these targets. In recent years, the scientific literature corpus on this topic has grown exponentially, and methods range from qualitative research to detailed quantitative impacts assessment and business models.

To assess progress within the transition towards a climate neutral economy and to study the complex interaction between low carbon technologies and sustainability aspects, a strong need for methods that assess the economic, environmental and societal effects of the low carbon actions taken on industrial and policy levels.

To meet this demand, we organize a PhD expert course on five different, state-of-the-art assessment tools which have a multitude of useful applications in different disciplines (material flow analysis (MFA), techno-economic assessment (TEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental valuation and integrated assessment (IA)). Interchange between these different disciplines is currently limited. As the actual actions for a climate neutral economy are taken at industry and policy level, integration of the different work fields is required.

A five-day event with method lectures, keynote speakers bridging methods to work field applications, and paper presentation sessions with discussants from the pool of participants and senior researchers. Participants will stay in Antwerp from Monday to Wednesday and will subsequently travel to Amsterdam for the second part of the Interdisciplinary School (Wednesday – Friday)

For more details and to apply: School Website

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EMEE 2025 – 16 th International workshop on “Empirical Methods in Energy Economics”

26 September 2024By

 

The 16th International workshop on “Empirical Methods in Energy Economics” – EMEE 2025 organised by the EMEE Network, supported by the EAERE member ETH Zurich Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE), will take place on January 16-17, 2025 at the World Bank, Washington DC (USA). The EMEE workshop is intended as a forum for the development and application of empirical methods in energy economics.

CEPE launched a call for papers and encourages submissions about experimental and quasi-experimental design, panel data, structural econometrics, energy and development. The deadline for submitting the extended abstracts is November 2, 2024.

Registration for the workshop will be possible in December 2024. Final papers/presentations, which will be available from the conference website, need to be submitted by January 20, 2025.

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Climate Economics Chairs Annual Conference on “Transition & Sustainability: Crossed Perspectives”

25 September 2024By

The Annual Conference of the Climate Economics Chair will take place on October 10, 2024 at Paris Dauphine-PSL University and will feature renowned speakers from Columbia University, including Scott Barrett, a specialist in global challenges, and Geoffrey Heal, an expert in resource and environmental economics. In the afternoon, Emmanuelle Wargon, President of the French Energy Regulator, will lead a roundtable on the transition to a low-carbon economy, with contributions from several distinguished professionals. For details and registration click here.

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Strengthening the Mediterranean cooperation of environmental and resource economists: MEDAERE at AERNA 2024 and at the 5th Siena Conference on the Europe of the Future

25 September 2024By

Environmental and resource economists working on the Mediterranean have taken a step forward in shaping up MEDAERE, the Mediterranean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The strong regional cooperation of EAERE economists inspired MEDAERE, which was presented at the 2024 EAERE General Assembly of Members in Leuven and promoted during two recent high-level events. At the AERNA XI Conference Roundtable “Climate Change and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Challenges for the Long-term Stability of the Med Area” chaired by Simone Borghesi, EAERE President, Haithem Bahri (INRGREF, Tunisia), Begüm Özkaynak (Bogazici University, Turkey) and Amandine Pastor (INRAE, France) exchanged views from the Northern, Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The discussion progressed in Siena at the plenary session of the 5th Siena Conference on The Europe of the Future. Romano Prodi, former President of the EU Commission and former Prime Minister of Italy, Carmen Arguedas, Raja Chakir and Valeria Costantini, representatives of AERNA, FAERE, IAERE, respectively, Angelo Riccaboni (President of PRIMA) and Marcello Scalisi (Director of UNIMED), chaired by Simone Borghesi, defined the path for an impactful and credible Mediterranean cooperation hinging on international research projects and student exchanges.

Romani Prodi and Simone Borghesi
Haithem Bahri, Begüm Özkaynak, Simone Borghesi and Amandine Pastor
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Policy Outreach Events

17th CEPR/EAERE Webinar on Climate Policy “The Economic Case for Climate Finance at Scale”

24 September 2024By

In the 17th Episode of the CEPR/EAERE Webinar Series, on Monday 28 October 2024, from 4PM (CET), 11AM (EDT), and 3PM (GMT), Patrick Bolton (Imperial College London and CEPR) and Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis (Cornell University, Imperial College London and CEPR) will present their paper “The Economic Case for Climate Finance at Scale”. The paper lays out the first economic case for scaling up climate finance from advanced countries to support EMDE decarbonization, particularly focusing on coal, the most polluting fossil fuel. With COP29 approaching and its agenda centered on setting a New Quantified Goal of Climate Finance (aiming to increase the $100 billion-a-year climate finance pledge to over $1 trillion a year), the paper’s findings are especially relevant. It empirically shows that large-scale climate finance is not only equitable but also economically beneficial for advanced economies.

The discussants, Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University and CEPR) and Lasse Heje Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School and CEPR), will provide complementary perspectives on the paper. Heal’s recent work on Blended Finance aligns with the presented paper’s focus on system-wide blended finance, while Pedersen’s research on Green Finance vs. Carbon Taxation, as explored in his CEPR VoxTalks Climate Finance podcast, finds that financial markets alone cannot achieve the necessary SCC. Pedersen’s paper is fundamental as it shows that green finance without government intervention cannot replicate a reasonable SCC, so if financial markets are to make a difference at the magnitude required to solve the climate crisis, system-wide public-private climate finance is likely important, which brings us back to The Economic Case for Climate Finance at Scale.

Imperial College London and CEPR

Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis
Cornell University, Imperial College London and CEPR

Discussants 
Lasse Heje Pedersen
Copenhagen Business School and CEPR

Geoffrey Heal
Columbia University and CEPR

The presentation will be followed by a discussion and Q&A session with the audience moderated by:
Christian Gollier
Toulouse School of Economics, EAERE, and CEPR

 

Click here to register.

For more information, check the invitation here.

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