15 March 2025

CESifo Area Conference 2025

Munich, Germany

CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2025
Scientific Organizer: Maximilian Auffhammer, University of Berkeley
Keynote Speaker: Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago
The scope of relevant topics at this conference is broad, ranging from climate mitigation and adaptation to the study of energy and resource markets as well as environmental market failures more broadly. The aim of the Energy and Climate Economics Area is to bring leading researchers from both sides of the Atlantic together to facilitate and discuss new and innovative theoretical and empirical research.

Saturday, 15 March 2023
10:50 - 11:30
"Climate shift uncertainty and economic damages" (with Romain Fillon and Manuel Linsenmeier)

Agenda.

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.

25 Sep 25

Engineering and logistical concerns add practical limitations to stratospheric aerosol injection strategies

by Miranda Hack, V. Faye McNeill, Dan Steingart, and Gernot Wagner

21 Oct 25

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.

8 Oct 25