Energy and climate exchange @ Bruegel
Description: Series intending to be a reference discussion forum in Brussels for professionals in the energy and climate change fields and other interested parties from various communities (academia and Think Tanks, policy institutions, selected press, business, NGOs, civil society) to discuss state-of-the-art development in the economics of energy and climate change policies.
Bruegel lead: Reinhilde Veugelers
Other involved Bruegel fellow: Georg Zachmann
Project duration: September 2009 – June 2010
Funding organisation:
The European Climate Foundation
Events:
- “Identifying the causal effect of carbon taxes - Identifying the causal effect of carbon taxes, an evaluation of the UK climate change levy”, lunch talk with Ralf Martin, Research Economist, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, 28 September 2009
- Lunch talk with Cathleen Kelly, Director, Climate and Energy Programme, German Marshall Fund of the United States, 9 November 2009
- Joint discussion event (European Climate Foundation/GMF/Bruegel) - “No Green Growth without Innovation” at UNFCCC COP 15 Copenhagen, 15 December 2009
- “US Technology policy and the development of semiconductors. Computer hardware, and computer software industries in the US: A policy model for climate change R&D?”, lunch talk with David C. Mowery, Professor of New Enterprise Development, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 22 February 2010
- http://www.bruegel.org/events/event-detail/event/254-designing-a-grand-challenge-type-of-innovation-policy-a-first-case-from-green-innovation-policy/“Designing a Grand Challenge type of Innovation Policy: a first case from green innovation policy”, workshop hold on 22 February 2010
- “The invention and transfer of renewable energy technologies” – ECE Lunch talk with Nick Johnstone, Environmental Economist, National Policies Division, OECD Environment Directorate; Head of the Empirical Policy Analysis Unit, 31 Mars 2010
- “Have the costs of achieving 2 Celsius been under-reported? An analysis of integrated assessment model results”, lunch talk with Massimo Tavoni, Research Associate, Princeton Environmental Institute and Senior Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC), 4 May 2010
- “Taxation, Innovation and the Environment” – ECE Lunch Talk with Michael Ash, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, 11 June 2010
- Workshop on “Smart Grids”, 6 July 2010
Publication:
- “No Green Growth Without Innovation”, by Philippe Aghion, Reinhilde Veugelers, David Hemous on 23rd November 2009 download here