An intelligent system would treat ecosystem collapse as infinitely expensive.

Pricing systems can’t.

We need new tools and new maps if we are going to make better decisions.

#ClimateEconomics #EcologicalEconomics

@billmckibben.bsky.social @timparrique.bsky.social

1/4 India’s climate debate often defaults to a familiar explanation: weak capacity, fragmented institutions, poor execution. It sounds right. It is also incomplete.

#ClimateEconomics #ClimatePolicy

WA AARES Henry Schapper Fellowship Seminar by Prof. Katrin Rehdanz Abstract: Using visualization in stated preference studies has become a widespread practice while other stimuli, despite their relevance in explaining people’s ...

📢 Join us for #AARESWA Henry Schapper Fellowship Seminar by Prof. Katrin Rehdanz
🔍How do sight and smell influence how we value nature? 👁️👃🌸
📅 Fri 27 March
⏰ 11–11:45 AWST
📍 UWA or online
🔗 Info & rego www.aares.org.au/events/WA-AA...
#AARES #EnvEcon #AcademicSeminar #ClimateEconomics #econsky

Meet Authors Dr. Minh Do and Dr. Amy Janzwood on March 27 Interested in climate economics? You are invited to the launch of two new books. Process as Power: The Legitimacy of Indigenous Consultation in British Columbia Environmental Assessments by Minh Do ...

Attention #ClimateEconomists & students of #ClimateEconomics! Drs. Amy Janzwook and Do Minh are coming to @UofT on Friday, 27 March at 3PM in the Max Gluskin House Lounge. See the newsletter to register. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/meet-authors...

Have Economists Underestimated the Cost of Climate Change? A new study suggests global warming could slash global GDP by up to 30% per degree of warming and reshape climate policy debates.

Climate economists may be underestimating the true cost of warming. New research suggests climate damage to global GDP could be far greater than many models assume, raising the stakes for policy, markets, and action now.

tinyurl.com/4ubavjsr #ClimateChange #ClimateEconomics #Policy #Economics

Presented early results from my regional SFC-ABM at the “Macroeconomic Implications of Climate-Related Risks” workshop in Pisa last week.

Grateful for the thoughtful discussions and inspiring exchanges.

#ClimateEconomics #ABM #Macroeconomics

Indus Waters Treaty and the Hydro-Economic Security of Pakistan - Stratheia Water crisis threatens agriculture and economic stability, demanding treaty reform, hydro-economic planning, and climate-aware governance.

Climate change has transformed river management into economic policy. Without hydro-economic planning, water shocks quickly become fiscal and food security crises.
#ClimateEconomics #RiverManagement #FoodSecurity
stratheia.com/indus-waters...

Postdoctoral Researcher with the option of permanent employment after 6 years (100 %, f/m/d)

We’re looking for a Postdoc in Environmental & #ClimateEconomics to join our team at @zew.de

Collaborative environment, no teaching obligations.
Quantitative or simulation experience is a plus.

🗓 Rolling review | Deadline: 31 March 2026
👉 Apply: jobs.zew.de/jobposting/9...

#EconJobs #Postdoc

DP21090 Carbon, Natural Capital and the Option Values of Climate Policies We develop a unified cost-benefit framework that allows for a better understanding of nature conservation and climate policies under risk and uncertainty. We derive modified Hotelling rules from a social planner’s welfare optimization. They reveal four forces that jointly determine market design for climate and nature conservation: First, discounted marginal climate damages enter the social cost of carbon (SCC) and marginal ecosystem services the social value of nature (SVN). Second, climate and nature are coupled, which raises both prices: degradation of ecosystems increases the SCC, while climate damages raise the SVN. Third, a climate-nature beta quantifies additional hedging components of policies against fat tails, when we consider a stochastic setting with exogenous random shocks. The climate-nature beta summarizes the option values for abatement, adaptation, ecosystem restoration and carbon dioxide removal. Fourth, Markov markups quantify tipping risks, which we capture by extending the model to a constrained Markov decision process with state-contingent transition probabilities. Thereby, we endogenize tipping points: the likelihood of moving into a high-damage regime becomes a function of the atmospheric carbon stock and natural capital, which depend on policy choices. Thus, hazard risks are a policy-sensitive component of the system’s dynamics. The model yields state-contingent asset-pricing formulas for carbon prices, restoration subsidies, land charges, and capacity payments. We propose institutions at the level of the European Union that could implement Pigouvian taxes and subsides as well as new types of SCC- and SVN-indexed bonds to share non-diversifiable risks arising from Earth's changing climate and the degradation of its biosphere.

New econ insights on polycrisis:

💡 NEW WP💡 with Ottmar #Edenhofer takes #RiskManagement perspective on #NaturalCapital & #ClimateEconomics & their interlinkages. We propose new policies to harness financial markets 4 risk sharing & discuss institutions 4 implementation 🌍🦋📈🏛️
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Why Biodegradable Packaging Still Struggles in a Plastic-Dominated World - Interconnected Earth Biodegradable packaging is often presented as a clear alternative to conventional plastic. If plastic pollution is accumulating in oceans, soils, food chains,

Plastic looks cheap because its real costs are hidden. Health impacts, ecosystem damage, and cleanup are paid by society — not producers.
Here’s why that matters for biodegradable alternatives:
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#EnvironmentalCosts #ClimateEconomics

Not stern enough: why green growth's best advocate still evades the hard questions "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." John Maynard Keynes wrote that nearly a century ago.

I reviewed the new book by Nicholas Stern "The Growth Story of the 21st Century"
#ClimateEconomics #PostGrowth #Omgroei #ThermodynamicLimits
www.linkedin.com/pulse/stern-...

Huge thanks to our speakers, participants & our colleagues from #JPIClimate & #MAGICA for their hard work behind the scenes & to our hosts @belspo.be

Look out for our post event write-up for more insights.

#Equinox #ClimateEconomics #ClimatePolicy #SocietalTransformation

An insightful deep dive into the challenges of making climate economic models detailed vs. accessible for policy decision makers on Day 2 of the #Equinox Dialogue, in person & online.
@belspo.be @eib.org @ecb.europa.eu

#ClimateEconomics #inance #ClimatePolicy #ClimateScience

Monthly Digest The latest research on climate economics.

We just released our December Research Digest.

It features a policy brief evaluating Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms and a discussion on how to assess climate-risk exposure at the country-level. Read it now!

🔗 mailchi.mp/e-axes.org/e...

#NetZero #ClimateEconomics

Are climate policies helping the planet or draining the economy? 🌍💸

📺 Watch at JiggyJaguar.com

#ClimateEconomics #EnergyPolicy #SustainabilityDebate #ClimateScience #GreenEnergyCosts #PublicPolicy

Is it just us or is December looking busy? Well here's a 2-in-1 event not to miss!
Book your place today jpi-climate.eu/event/worksh...
#Equinox #CNF #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateEvents #ClimateModelling #ClimateEconomics #NetZero #SSH

COP30 Must Close the Adaptation Gap. Bangladesh Depends on It At the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, world leaders are debating how to finance climate adaptation in developing countries like Bangladesh.

Professor @jeffreysun.bsky.social and student Tishma Joarder co-authored this piece about closing the adaptation gap in Bangladesh. #ClimateEconomics #ClimateChange earth.org/at-cop30-wea...

Monthly Digest The latest research on climate economics.

We just released our November Research Digest.

It announces the winners of our young scholars prize and features a literature review about climate adaption subsidies.

Read it now and subscribe!
🔗 mailchi.mp/e-axes.org/e...

#NetZero #ClimateEconomics

Power Decarbonization in a Global Energy Market: The Climate Effect of U.S. LNG Exports - E-Axes Forum Costanza Abuin (Princeton University) asks if the United States can influence global electricity decarbonization through its liquified natural gas (LNG) export policy?

In an integrated global economy, national climate policies are inevitably shaped by other states’ actions. Exploring this further, our new research digest asks how US LNG export policies affect power decarbonization worldwide.

Read it here!
🔗 e-axes.org/research/pow...

#NetZero #ClimateEconomics

#ICYMI

#COP30 #climatepolicy #climateeconomics #climatepolitics #climategovernance #multilevelgovernance #tranparency #accountability #technology #climatejustice #resilience #humanplanetaryhealth #climatefinance #openaccess

Africa braces for impact of EU carbon border tax Europe’s carbon border tax is set to affect the competitiveness of many types of African exports to the European Union.

We're featured in African Business magazine on how the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism could reshape African trade.

IGC’s @timdobermann.bsky.social notes opportunities for countries powered by renewables, like Mozambique.

Read more👉 african.business/2025/11/poli...

#CBAM #ClimateEconomics

Don't miss our webinar today on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms!

Register now:
📅 November 3, 2025
🕛 11:00 EST | 5:00 CET
🔗 tinyurl.com/4sy2m6hw
#NetZero #ClimateEconomics

"Even at $95 a ton, nobody paid it,” says Dr. Normand Mousseau, Director of the Trottier Energy Institute.

#Innovation #Policy #NetZero #ClimateEconomics #Canada #ClimateChange #Sustainability #EnergyPolicy

On Monday, we held a webinar all about the link between climate change and regulatory capital. It was a fascinating conversation with serious implications for policymakers. Watch it now!

🔗 youtu.be/qwSfhT1PZkg
#NetZero #ClimateEconomics

The Macro and Microeconomics of Climate Change Join ISI Delhi and ISGH in India for a public talk by Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia on the micro and macroeconomic dimensions of climate change.

🌏 Join us on 23 Oct, 17:30–18:45 IST at ISI Delhi for a public talk by Montek Singh Ahluwalia on The Macro & Microeconomics of Climate Change.

Hosted by ISI Delhi & ISGH, supported by the IGC.

☕ High Tea at 17:00.
#ClimateEconomics

theigc.org/events/macro...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🗓️ In Florida and beyond, clean energy has brought healthier, cleaner jobs and savings to families. Let’s learn what progress has been made and what we can do to protect it. ☀️➡️ This Thursday, October 16th with Bob Keefe, #climateeconomics expert and Executive Director of E2. ✅

#Sustainability #NickStern #ClimateAction #Climate #ClimateEconomics @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social

FYI: unenforceable climate pledges are dead. The only path forward is a new framework as stated in the article built on economic reality: fairness & transparent incentives.

Carbon pricing with equity is the test!

#ClimateEconomics #CarbonPricing #Incentives

Contributor: Trump is doing everything he can to raise your energy bills The president has sabotaged clean energy development at every turn.

Check out my op-ed about how Trump promised lower energy bills but is making them worse.
#EnergyPolicy #CleanEnergy #Trump #ElectricityBills #Renewables #ClimateEconomics #caleg

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Last week, we hostsed a webinar which discussed how energy price inflation makes investment in high-emission firms more risky. Watch it now!

🎥 youtu.be/nzSzMWYChmg
#NetZero #ClimateEconomics