Read the whole thing and then just curl up in a corner and cry, I guess

Diesel Is Having a Moment Almost-record-high diesel prices may make electric heavy duty trucks an even better deal! As you are probably not currently on a European vacation and reading this, or a truck driver refilling your…

Catching up on the Energy Institute blog. Last week, Max had a classic Auffhammerish post on the private versus social cost of diesel big rigs versus electric. Combines two of Max's favorite topics: big trucks and greenhouse gases, and a dollop of humor.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/d...

Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...

Maybe you saw this paper? It is a way of thinking through these dynamics. I don’t say we fix everything, but the paper was motivated by this kind of discussion. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Social Cost of Carbon by @paulkelleher.net. Beach reading this Easter. I thoroughly recommend. Crystallises some thoughts I’ve been having recently on the social discount rate, but helpful in so many other ways on the social cost of carbon. Congrats @paulkelleher.net

This is great news. Finland to restore marshlands, which will (1) act as an natural barrier to deter a Russian invasion, (2) be a carbon sink to slow down climate change, (3) protect biodiversity. Superb!

BIOECON Conference #27

“Economics, Finance and Nature Based Risks”

Call for submissions is now available. The conference is at St John’s, Cambridge Uni, 6th-8th of Sept 2026.

www.bioecon-network.org/pages/27th_2...

Keynotes: Pr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State) and Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE)

Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition by Mark Freeman, Ben Groom, Frikk Nesje, and Gernot Wagner

Some light Sunday reading to fill that post-Olympic void:

"Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition" with Mark Freeman, @bengroom.bsky.social & @frikknesje.bsky.social

Updated working paper: gwagner.com/beliefs

TL;DR: both evidence & prior beliefs matter, a lot.

Deadline in 2 weeks: 27th Feb 2026.

HM Treasury Review of the Social Discount Rate: Survey.

See below for details and links.

@granthamlse.bsky.social , @leepinstitute.bsky.social

Spoiling a good story there mate.

Incredible.

I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)

RIP Sly Dunbar. Loved this collaboration: open.spotify.com/track/4QHfFz...

Hooray!

Philippe Delacote - Resources for PhD students Some useful tools and sources of info for young (and older) research fellows in environmental and development economics. With great insights from Jean-Marie Baland, François Bareille, Pierre Beaucora...

🧰 Resources for PhD students and young researchers

The past few days, I have been collecting useful resources that might help younger researchers:

- academic writing advice
- data-management warnings
- econometric tools and methods
- and a few other things

sites.google.com/view/philipp...

New EU carbon tariff pushes India toward green steel Europe’s pioneering tax on polluting imports presents India’s coal-reliant steelmakers with a choice: Decarbonize or risk losing customers.

Yes, EU CBAM pushing Indian steel producers toward greener production processes.

I only wish people would stop referring to #CBAM as a tariff. Tariffs treat foreign and domestic producers differently, while a CBAM levels the playing field. More like a VAT.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...

Atomistically post-modern.

UK HM Treasury discount rate review. See link below. We’d like responses before 27th Feb. See below. @rff.org @granthamlse.bsky.social @leepinstitute.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social

HM Treasury is requesting input into its Green Book Discount Rate Review, and we need your help.

If you have an interest in Social Discounting, please complete the following survey: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

2) Forward this link to interested parties.

Deadline: Feb 27th

When you come to London look me up. Plenty of gyms. Real rock not far away.

Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...

New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...

New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Also. Remind me. Subsidies to FF? That’s a thing right?

Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were
Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.

Loved the book btw.

Researchers point the way to restoring trust in carbon credits More robust ways of measuring the impact of carbon credits can restore trust in offsetting schemes, a new study finds.

Researchers including Professor @bengroom.bsky.social are working to restore trust in carbon offsetting by demonstrating the more robust ways their impact can be measured. @leepinstitute.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Many thanks to an amazing team of wonderful co-authors:
S. Chabé-Ferret @tse-fr.eu
A. Creti @univdauphine.bsky.social
K. Duffy
M. Elias @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
A. Guizar Coutiño @ox.ac.uk
B. Filewod
@bengroom.bsky.social
A. Kontoleon
G. Le Velly
T. L'Horty
A. Missirian
T. A. P. West

One last view over Bergen following a nice #EAERE2025 conference.

Always happy to meet friends and colleagues I seldom have the occasion to cross paths with.

Including
@profejzrobinson.bsky.social
@bengroom.bsky.social
@elchinosauro.bsky.social

And many others

@eaere.bsky.social

If Trump Will Not Join The War, What Then? Hi All,

"If “two-weeks” means what it normally means, and as it has regularly meant for Ukraine, then the US is almost certainly going to stay out of the war."

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Advice to junior faculty – Tatyana Deryugina Tatyana Deryugina

I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?”

My new blog post covers the answer.

#EconSky

Hi Rob. A lot to say here. In short. UK ONS has natural capital accounts. The UN SEEA also. Some are just physical, others in monetary terms. The US Biden admin had a structure in place which has not yet been torn up, and may not be since it focusses on minerals, oil, forests and fish. Progress

Valuing natural capital and its distribution in the Congo Basin forests - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment The authors of the study highlight the importance of understanding how natural capital is distributed across rightsholders — a key question for development policy and the design of natural capital finance in forested regions.

Our latest working paper provides new insights into the economic value of the Congo Basin forests and how the supply of this value is distributed across categories of rightsholders, thereby linking values to the different groups who make management decisions about the forest. www.lse.ac.uk/granth...