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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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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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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EAERE Winter School in Resource and Environmental Economics 2025 on Biodiversity Economy

20 September 2024By

EAERE Winter School in Resource and Environmental Economics on Biodiversity Economy

According to the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity (Dasgupta, 2021) the economy is ’embedded’ in nature, meaning economic activity is subject to the constraints of the biosphere and sustainable economic development dependent on the biodiversity and nature. In a series of 5 lectures on the economics of biodiversity, experts in field will explore the complex connections between the economy, biodiversity and nature. How do we measure biodiversity in meaningful ways for economics analysis and natural capital accounting? What role can nature-based solutions play in addressing local (e.g. water quality) and global (e.g. climate change) externalities? What values does biodiversity provide to the economy in terms of resilience and insurance? How can we model the complexities of ecological and economics systems convincingly? Finally, what role can public policy and the financial markets play in overcoming the externalities that lead to biodiversity decline. These are just some of the questions that will be addressed over the course of the week.

For more details and to apply: Website

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Society for Eco-innovation Studies’ 2nd bi-annual Workshop “Eco-innovation for decarbonization and circularity: aligning business and policy with planetary boundaries”

26 August 2024By

 

The Society for Eco-innovation Studies organises its second (bi-annual) workshop on 28 and 29 of November 2024 at the HEC Paris campus in Jouy-en Josas (France).

The main topic of the conference is “Eco-innovation for decarbonization and circularity: aligning business and policy with planetary boundaries“.

This 2-days event is hosted by the S&O Climate and Earth Centre (Sustainability and Organisations Institute), with the financial support of the HEC Foundation. The event has the support of the University of Ferrara SEEDS Inter-University Research Centre (EAERE member) and the University of Alcala INNOGREEN Research Group.

The call for papers is available at this link.

For more information please visit the dedicated webpage.

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FSR Climate Annual Conference on the Economic Assessment of European Climate Policies 2024

23 July 2024By

 

The Climate Area of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) is pleased to announce its 10th Annual Conference on the Economic Assessment of European Climate Policies to take place at the European University Institute in Florence on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 November 2024.

The conference will include a keynote speech, a policy session, parallel sessions, and plenary speeches focusing on carbon pricing and energy transition and will be chaired by Simone Borghesi, Director of the FSR Climate, Deputy Rector for International Relationships at the University of Siena and President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).

Call for papers
For this special 10th edition, applicants are warmly invited to submit papers focusing on:

  • Carbon pricing, emissions trading and environmental taxation,
  • Energy transition, energy efficiency and renewable energy,
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Authors may send their submissions, including title, abstract and full text, in PDF format to FSRClimate@eui.eu by Tuesday, 24 September.

Further information is available here.

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Policy Outreach Events

Environment, Resources, and Cooperation in the Mediterranean – Vision Pontignano Conference on the Future of Europe 2024

17 July 2024By

 

The EAERE Policy Outreach event “Environment, Resources, and Cooperation in the Mediterranean“, in partnership with the University of Siena and the EUI, will take place on September 13, 2024 at 15:15-16:15 CEST in Pontignano, Siena (Italy) and will be streamed online.

The event is framed within the Vision Pontignano Conference on the Future of Europe 2024. The full agenda is available here.

Concept Note

Political borders and unions offer unparalleled opportunities for robust, integrated climate policy. The EU’s Green Deal, a suite of ambitious, largely binding, climate legislation is a prime example of this. However, they also artificially restrict the field of cooperation to within specific borders, a risky limitation in the face of notoriously cross-border climate impacts.

The EU’s Southern border with the Mediterranean is as relevant for climate futures as its Northern border with the Arctic, additionally layered with the social complexities of climate change, including resource conflicts, migration, energy access, and climate disasters. In the face of this, building on a rich history of Mediterranean cooperation and diversity, and on environmental economics cooperation around the world, we see ample scope for sustainable collective environmental progress. The University of Siena and Vision have long supported Mediterranean cooperation in research and development, most notably in Prime Minister Prodi’s advocacy of a Mediterranean University, and we are honored to support missions in this direction.

Chair

Simone Borghesi, Vice Rector for International Relations of the University of Siena, Director of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) Climate at the European University Institute, and President of EAERE

Speakers

  • Romano Prodi (Former President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Italy),
  • Valeria Costantini (Economics Department Director at Roma Tre and President of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists),
  • Marcello Scalisi (Director of the Mediterranean Universities Union – UNIMED),
  • Angelo Riccaboni (President of the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area – PRIMA),
  • Carmen Arguedas, (President of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resource Economics),
  • Raja Chakir (Steering Committee of the French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists).

Online registration

If you are willing to follow the event online access this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84186643605.

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Summer School in European Environmental Taxation and Policies 2.0 (EU-SUSEET)

16 July 2024By

The Summer School in European Environmental Taxation and Policies 2.0 (EU-SUSEET) is organised in the framework of a Jean Monnet Module funded by the European Commission and has been designed to provide participants with suitable expertise on environmental taxation and policies, useful both for the construction of an academic career and for a professional one, contributing to the creation of a new generation of European environmental tax lawyers and economists. It will provide the occasion for participants from all over the world discuss with eminent professors and experts working in these fields.

Check the School’s leaflet for more details.

Keynote speakers

  • Paul Ekins, UCL
  • Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg
  • Theo Zachariadis, Cyprus Institute
  • Stephen White, Strategy, Better Regulation and Economic Analysis Unit, DG Environment
  • Veronica Manfredi, ‘Zero Pollution’, DG Environment

Please note that all the SUSEET 2.0 sessions will be streamed. You can access each online session by clicking the related link in the programme.

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