New online course on “Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health”

11 September 2020By

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s center for executive and continuing professional education has created a new online course: “Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health”. In the course, Lisa A. Robinson, a leading Harvard expert on benefit-cost analysis, will aid participants in understanding the benefit-cost analysis framework and application, including its strengths and weaknesses.

Deadline for registration: September 18, 2020, 12:00 pm EDT

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Supported Events

EAERE@EEA2020: Contributed Sessions

7 August 2020By

The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) will be present at the 35th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) with two contributed sessions:

1. Growth and Natural Resources

When: Aug 25, 2020 4.30 – 6.00 pm CEST
Chair: Martin Stuermer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Presentations:

  • Growth with deadly spillovers – Pietro F. Peretto, Duke University
  • Closing wells: fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition – Inge van den Bijgaart, University of Gothenburg
  • On the Effectiveness of Climate Policies – Conny Olovsson, Sveriges Riksbank
  • Non-Renewable Resource, Extraction Technology and Endogenous Growth – Martin Stuermer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2. Firm-level Impacts of the EU ETS: Taking Stock after 15 Years

When: Aug 27, 2020 2.30 – 4.00 pm CEST
Chair: Beat Hintermann, University of Basel

Presentations: 

  • The Impact of Carbon Trading on Industry: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms – Jakob Lehr, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Market power and incomplete regulation: An application to the EU ETS – Raphael Calel, Georgetown University
  • Environmental Policy and Investment Location: The Risk of Carbon Leakage in the EU ETS – Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Toulouse School of Economics
  • The effect of climate policy on productivity and cost pass-through in the German manufacturing sector- Beat Hintermann, University of Basel

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Participation in the EEA 2020 virtual is free of charge to all members of the EEA. If you are not a member of the EEA, but would like to participate in the Congress, please join the EEA. Details can be found here.

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Policy Outreach Events

The European Green Deal: prospects and challenges for the future – Keynote Plenary at EAERE2020

18 June 2020By

Time: 10:45-12:15
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The session organized by the EAERE Policy Outreach Committee (POC) as part of the EAERE Plenary intends to discuss the features of the European Green Deal in the framework of the post-Covid policies. The EU has decided to green its new overall economic policy: priority is being given to climate neutrality by 2050, to biodiversity, the circular economy, and greening will be pursued in well established sectoral policies such as on energy, transport, innovation, agriculture, as well as on its budget and finance. The Covid reality has suddenly but profoundly changed the social, economic and political reality all over Europe. The heart of this discussion is the European budget and the Recovery Fund. The POC session will discuss to what extent the world looks different after several months of living with the Covid virus, from a perspective of reaching the climate targets, but even more importantly from the viewpoint of realizing the political ambition of the EU Green Deal. In line with the aim of the EAERE POC, particular attention will be devoted to the most suitable policies that should be implemented for an effective Green Deal and to the kinds of investments that are needed for the EU Green Deal to achieve its goals.

Organizers: Simone Borghesi, European University Institute; Jos Delbeke, European University Institute, KU Leuven

 

Chairs: Simone Borghesi, European University Institute, University of Siena; Jos Delbeke, European University Institute, KU Leuven

 

Keynote speakers:
Alexander Stubb, Director and Professor, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute. Former Prime, Finance and Foreign Minister of Finland.
Peter Vis, Senior Adviser at Rud Pedersen Public Affairs, Brussels; Former official at the European Commission

Panelists: Thomas Sterner, EfD Environment for Development initiative, University of Gothenburg;
Herman Vollebergh, Tilburg University and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency;
Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business;
Ben Groom, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and and Political Science;
Andrea Tilche, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission;
Dominique Bureau, General Delegate of the Economic council for sustainable development, Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France;
Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, Italian Ministry of Environment – Sogesid TA – OECD/WPEP – GBE – University of Roma Tor Vergata;
Xavier Labandeira Villot, Universidade de Vigo;
Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Technische Universität Berlin
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