What'sUp@IAERE - December 2019
What'sUp@IAERE reports on events, job opportunities, education & traning activities, web resources, useful data, and publications posted by IAERE members in the Association's website.
I write these few lines to send you my greetings to the whole IAERE community since my term as President of the Association is about to finish at the end of the year. It has been a great experience and I would like to thank you all for your help and support during these two years. We have seen the Association growing in terms of number of members (we are currently 183 members) and participants to our annual conference (always more than 130 in the last two editions), with active participation of many colleagues from abroad (accounting for 22% of our individual members).
We continued to have a large participation from young scholars (the majority of our individual members), which is in the DNA of our Association from the very beginning. This made the IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award particularly meaningful and very competitive in the last editions. We had two very interesting IAERE Schools on timely topics that are at the centre of much debate. This gave many promising PhD students/young scholars the opportunity to know each other and get in contact with some experienced colleagues. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the local organisers and our Secretaries for the remarkable effort in setting up the two Schools and ensuring that everything went fine by taking care of all details. From personal participation to international meetings, I would like to add that our activity is much appreciated and increasingly recognised at the international level. In particular, I received much interest and support to the proposal of holding a series of conferences of the Environmental and Resource Economists of the Mediterranean region, which I launched at the IAERE meeting during the last EAERE conference in Manchester. On that occasion I proposed that the first meeting of the Mediterranean Environmental and Resource Economists could take place back-to-back to one of our future Annual conferences and we are already working for that. The representatives of most Mediterranean countries in EAERE have already formally supported the initiative and some have also proposed their candidature to hold such a meeting in the future. I am also very happy of the collaboration established with SIE (the Association of Italian Economists) that has regularly hosted IAERE sessions in the last editions of its annual conference and has given increasing visibility to our Association also through its plenary session and the continuous dissemination of our activities. The same applies to the mutual collaboration with AIEAA (the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) that regularly participates to our Annual conference with a special session and hosts an IAERE session in its own conference. We are working to possibly extend collaborations with other associations in the future as this proves to be mutually enriching. Last but not least I would like to thank the Secretariat of IAERE for its precious support over these years and Shouro for his great work with the Newsletter. Much remains to be done. Knowing the commitment and energy of our next Presidents, Sergio and Alessio, I have no doubt that our Association will keep growing in many aspects and several things will be further improved in the future. Finally, a warm thank you to all of you for the friendly and encouraging atmosphere that I have always perceived during these two years, which is the most beautiful aspect of this great experience. I take this opportunity to send you my best wishes for the upcoming holidays, and I look forward to seeing you all in Brescia!
Simone Borghesi IAERE President FSR Climate - European University Institute | University of Siena Italy
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IAERE2020 - Brescia, 6-7 February 2020
The Eighth Annual Conference will be held in Brescia on 6-7 February 2020. The chair of the programme committee and the local organiser is Sergio Vergalli (our President Elect) The registrations are now open!
IMPORTANT DATES 7 January 2020: notifications of paper/long abstract acceptance 14 January 2020: deadline for registration for inclusion in the Programme 6-7 February 2020: Conference
IAERE special session at SIE 60th Annual Conference. Simone Borghesi invited speaker at the final plenary session
A special session entitled "Emerging issues in Environmental Economics" was organized by IAERE on October 24, 2019 at the 60th Annual Conference of the Italian Economists Society held in Palermo.
On October 26, moreover, Simone Borghesi, IAERE President participated as invited speaker to the roundtable on "The challenges for sustainability, policies and economic research" in the final plenary session of the Annual Conference. The keynote speech in the introductory plenary session was by Maurice Obstfeld (University of California, Berkeley). The IAERE session "Emerging issues in Environmental Economics" took place on October 24th, at 3:20 pm. The following papers were presented:
Violent Conflicts, Climate Conditions and Socio-economic Vulnerability in Africa Federica Cappelli, Caterina Conigliani, Valeria Costantini, Keti Lelo, Anil Markandya, Elena Paglialunga, Giorgia Sforna Structural Change and the Environment: Unbundling the Contribution of Structural Change to Sustainable Consumption and Production Giovanni Marin, Massimiliano Mazzanti Waste recycling policies in an E-DSGE model Amedeo Argentiero, Alessio D'Amato, Mariangela Zoli Innovation and Climate Change Adaptation: An Analysis of the Agricultural Firms' Efficiency Sabrina Auci, Nicolò Barbieri, Manuela Coromaldi, Melania Michetti
Cainelli G., D’Amato A., and Mazzanti M. (2020) Resource efficient eco-innovations for a circular economy: Evidence from EU firms Research Policy, 49(1), 103827
Lamperti F., Bosetti V., Riventini A., Tavoni M. (2019), The public costs of climate-induced financial instability Nature Climate Change Volume 9, pages 829–833, DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0607-5
Marin G., Vona F. (2019) Climate Policies and Skill-Biased Employment Dynamics: Evidence from EU countries Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Volume 98
Markandya A., De Cian E., Drouet L., Polanco-MartÃnez J.M., Bosello F. (2019) Building Risk into the Mitigation/Adaptation Decisions simulated by Integrated Assessment Models Environmental and Resource Economics, 74(4), 1687-1721, DOI: 10.1007/s10640-019-00384-1
Marzi S., Farina L., Dasgupta Shouro Mysiak, J., Lorenzoni A. (2019) Competence analysis for promoting energy efficiency projects in developing countries: The case of OPEC topEnergy, 189, (2019), 115996.
FSR Climate Webinar - 19 December 2019, 4:00PM-5:00 PM CET Linking Emissions Trading Systems in the Paris Agreement Era Speakers: Jos Delbeke (EUI) and Robert Stavins (Harvard) Moderator: Simone Borghesi (EUI)
Over the past few years, the number of operating or planned Emissions Trading Systems (ETSs) around the world has been increasing and relevant experience with some already well-established ETSs has been accumulated. This fact and the context laid out by Article 6 of the Paris Agreement suggests that in the near future the international carbon market might be reinvigorated by new linkages between existing ETSs. In this online debate, Jos Delbeke and Robert Stavins will discuss the current prospects for ETS linking as well as the opportunities and the challenges for the jurisdictions that do consider linking their ETSs. The online debate is part of the LIFE DICET (Deepening International Cooperation on Emissions Trading) project developed by the Climate unit of the Florence School of Regulation.
CALL FOR PAPERS XI meeting of the Network on the Economics of Regulation and Institutions (NERI) (Naples, Italy, 13-14 February 2020) Deadline for paper submission: 31 December 2019
On February 13th-14th 2020 the Department of Economics and Statistics, University Federico II of Naples, will host the XI meeting of the Network on the Economics of Regulation and Institutions (NERI). The workshop will include an invited session on environmental regulation. Timo Goeschl (Heidelberg University) and Ralf Martin (Imperial College London) have already confirmed their participation. The deadline for paper submission is 31st December 2019. Papers should be submitted to: neri.workshop@gmail.com
Submission of papers dealing with all the themes included in the interests of NERI is invited, and the submission of papers on environmental regulation is especially encouraged.
New European Citizens’ Initiative: A price for carbon to fight climate change
A new European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) has been launched to ask to EU to improve actions to discourage fossil fuel consumption, encourage energy saving and use of renewable sources. This ECI - promoted by Associazione Lica Coscioni, Eumans, Science for Democracy with the academic support of Alberto Majocchi, Professor of Public Finance at the University of Pavia and one of IAERE honorary member - asks the introduction of a minimum price on CO2 emissions and abolishment of the free allowance system. Revenues shall be used to potentiate renewable sources and reduction of taxes on lower incomes To allocate the higher revenues deriving from carbon pricing to European policies that support energy saving and encourage renewable sources, and to the reduction of taxation on lower incomes.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES / SCHOOLS
3-7 February 2020, Freiberg, Germany
IIASA's 2020 Young Scientists Summer Program Deadline for applications: 11 January 2020
University of Ferrara, a.y. 2020/2021
Master degree in Economics Management and Policies for Global Challenges - Curriculum Green Economy and Sustainability Call for application will open next year
NEW! 13-14 February 2020, Naples, Italy
XI meeting of the Network on the Economics of Regulation and Institutions (NERI) Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 Dec 2019
27-29 April 2020, Curitiba, Brazil
2nd World Symposium on Social Responsibility and Sustainability
NEW! 10-12 June 2020, Bari-Valenzano, Italy
9th Conference of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics "Mediterranean agriculture facing climate change: Challenges and Policies" Deadline for abstract submissions: 9 February 2020
NEW! 24-27 June 2020, Berlin, Germany 25th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Deadline for paper submission: 31 January 2020 Deadline for Policy Session submission: 23 December 2019 Deadline for Thematic Session submission: 31 January 2019
NEW! 24-27 June 2020, Bertinoro, Italy 26th International Panel Data Conference Deadline for paper submission: 15 March 2020
NEW! 29 June – 1 July 2020, Freiburg, Germany 2020 International Energy Workshop topDeadline for paper submission: 1 February 2020
IAERE members are encouraged to share information with the IAERE community through the Association's channels.
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