Impacts, risks, adaptations

External review of the IPBES business and biodiversity assessment

5 August 2024By

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has announced the external review of the methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. During this external review, the first draft of the chapters and the first draft of the summary for policymakers will be made available for review for a period of 8 weeks, from 24 July to 17 September 2024. To ensure the highest scientific quality and policy relevance of the assessment, the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel is seeking peer review from the widestpossible participation of experts from all relevant disciplines and backgrounds. Click here to know how to participate as an expert reviewer.

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EAERE 2024 Policy Session on the contribution of environmental economists to the IPCC process

5 August 2024By

The policy session “The forthcoming 7th IPCC Assessment Report. What role is there for environmental economists?“, held during EAERE 2024 and chaired by Simone Borghesi, aimed at discussing modalities and strategies to stimulate more economic research to be embedded in the IPCC 7th Assessment Cycle and more in general in IPCC processes, including covering research innovation gaps. The session featured Philippe Tulkens (EU Commission – DG Research and Innovation) as well as the EAERE members Jos Delbeke, Phoebe Koundouri, Xavier Labandeira, Jan Minx and Massimo Tavoni. Read the session’s notes and watch the video recording on the EAERE YouTube channel.

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Supported Events

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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Supported Events

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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25th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET)

10 July 2024By

The 25th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET), organised by Stellenbosch University’s Business School, will be held on 18-20 September 2024 at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in Stellenbosch, which is situated near Cape Town (South Africa).

The 2024 edition, entitled “Towards a just energy transition – perspectives from the North and South” is to be held for the first time on the African continent. It provides an ideal global platform to foster participatory and inclusive climate change dialogue between the Global North and South, especially at a time when, as the IPCC 2022 report notes, “humanity is at a crossroads”. The use of environmental taxation and other market-based instruments is critical in achieving a just energy transition, particularly in development contexts.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Saliem Fakir, African Climate Change Foundation
  • Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmad, Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan
  • Nthabiseng Moleko, Stellenbosch University Business School
  • Karen Bosman, Wesgro, South Africa

For more information, check the Conference website here.

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Annual Conferences

WCERE 2026

28 June 2024By

Local Organising Committee Chair: Maria Antonieta Cunha e Sá

Programme Committee:

  • Maria Antonieta Cunha e Sá (Nova SBE) – Co-Chair
  • Simone Borghesi (EAERE) – Co-Chair
  • Ken-Ichi Akao (AAERE)
  • Randall Walsh (AERE)
  • Selma Karuaihe (AFAERE)
  • Marcelo Caffera (LAERE)
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