Climate Change Economics

May 17 at 10:45–12:30, room Vingen 1+2

Keywords describing this session: welfare, discount rates, and intra- and intergenerational justice, bioeconomy, carbon pricing, fossil fuel subsidies, global, national and intergenerational inequality, industrial policy

Program

10:45      Welcome – Marion Dupoux, researcher at the Department of Economics at University of Gothenburg & Jakob Skovgaard, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University

10:50-11:30     Keynote: The dynamics of climate physics, risks and green technological change – Frank Venmans, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London

11:30- 11:40    Valuing the Societal Benefits of Carbon Farming – Mark Brady, Associate Professor at Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University and Policy officer at AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU

11:45-11:55      Institutions and economic structure matter for fossil fuel subsidy levels and reforms – Nils Droste, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University

12:00-12:10      Evaluating Policies for Decarbonization of the Swedish Economy through the DPSIR Framework: The Case of Biofuels – Jagdeep Singh, researcher at Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University

12:15-12:25      The social cost of methane – Thomas Sterner, Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

12:30       End of session