3 January 2016

2016 American Economic Association Meetings

San Francisco, CA

Discussion of Matthew Kotchen’s "Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Inquiry" paper.

Full session information:

Association of Environmental & Resource Economists/American Economic Association

Economics of Climate Change (Q5)

Presiding: VIC ADAMOWICZ (University of Alberta)

Strategic Social Cost of Carbon
MATTHEW KOTCHEN (Yale University)

Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon
DAVID ANTHOFF (University of California-Berkeley)
JOHANNES EMMERLING (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)

Smart Cap
CHRISTIAN TRAEGER (University of California-Berkeley)
LARRY KARP (University of California-Berkeley)

Collective Intertemporal Choice: Time Consistency vs. Time Invariance
ANTONY MILLNER (London School of Economics)
GEOFFREY HEAL (Columbia University)

Discussants:

GERNOT WAGNER (Environmental Defense Fund)

LAWRENCE GOULDER (Stanford University)

SEVERIN BORENSTEIN (University of California-Berkeley)

BENJAMIN GROOM (London School of Economics)

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Batterien statt Kraftwerke

Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.

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Getting to Greener Steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

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