Dear colleagues,


with our concern currently being the older generation, solidarity might soon extend to include also the younger ones more effectively, addressing issues such as climate change. We thus take the opportunity to discuss how these issues fare now: 


Heartily invitation to join and participate in our Online Conference


                                                            ​Policy Shift for the Low-Carbon Transition in a Globally Embedded Economy

Online Conference

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Please link up to

https://zoom.us/j/158957890
(Meeting-ID: 158 957 890; for connection details: see Attachement; link available starting at 8:15 a.m.)

 

Session 1: European Climate Policy

Herman Vollebergh (Tilburg University & PBL), What can we learn from EU ETS?

Peter Zapfel (European Commission), Addressing distributional effects to make the European Green Deal a success

 

Session 2: National Carbon Pricing

Karen Pittel (ifo Munich), The Need for Reform of National Carbon Pricing – the German Example

Jakob Mayer, Anna Dugan, Gabriel Bachner, Karl Steininger (Uni Graz), Carbon pricing with various recycling schemes in a dynamic-recursive CGE model with heterogeneous households  

 

Session 3: National policies beyond carbon pricing

Herman Vollebergh (Tilburg), Edwin van der Werf (Wageningen) and Johanna Vogel (Environment Agency), An evaluation framework for eco-innovation policies for a low-carbon economy 

Anna Dugan, Jakob Mayer, Annina Thaller, Gabriel Bachner, Karl Steininger (Uni Graz), Going beyond market-based instruments: Modal split shift and electrification of individual road transport in Austria

 

 

You can download all papers at our conference web platform:

http://wegcwww.uni-graz.at/wp/shift/

under menu choice: "Access to final conference"

 

If you want to download the papers: Please sign up to this conference by sending an email to karl.steininger@uni-graz.at; you will then receive the password for the web platform



You are very welcome to join!


best,


Karl Steininger


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| Karl W. Steininger
| Professor of Climate Economics and Sustainable Transition
| Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC) and
| Department of Economics, University of Graz, Austria
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