Wednesday
The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
This session looks at how climate change impacts and adaptation options are assessed in economic terms and modeled within integrated assessment models. This session will cover the technical aspects of economic modeling of impacts and adaptation options and how these estimates can be applied to advise policy making.
The German Energiewende and EU Climate and Energy Policy
The session deals with the German Energiewende as an important member state strategy within the EU climate and energy policy. The energy transition describes the pathway to a secure, environmentally friendly, and economically successful future. Some targets of the energy concept of the German government are likely to be achieved, in other areas the implementation is lacking behind. The different targets and measures will be analysed from an economic point of view. Synergies and conflicts with EU Climate and Energy Policy will be highlighted.
Lecturer/Convenor
Kelly de Bruin
Kelly de Bruin is Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at the Umeå University and the Centre for Resource and Environmental Economics in Umeå Sweden. Her work focuses on climate economics, in particular adaptation to climate change, applied modeling (Integrated Assessment modeling), uncertainty and mitigation coalitions. She also is involved in policy-orientated climate change research with international policy organizations. In this respect she has worked on numerous policy projects in collaboration with the OECD, UNEP, UNDP, African Development Bank and Oxfam. This policy work focusses on future adaptation needs in particular in Africa.
Andreas Löschel
Andreas Löschel is Professor for Microeconomics, especially energy and resource economics, at University of Münster since 2014. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Economics & Government, Australian National University in Canberra. Prior to that he led the Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management“ at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) and was Professor of Economics at University of Heidelberg. Since 2011 he chairs the expert commission on the montoring process "Energie der Zukunft" of the German Federal Government.He was a lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research interests are international environmental economics, especially the economics of climate change and energy policy and quantitative economic modelling.
Birgit Bednar-Friedl
Birgit Bednar-Friedl is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of Graz, and vice head of the research group "Economics of Climate and Global Change" at Wegener Center of Climate and Global Change. Her research centers on climate change impacts, international climate policy and management of natural resources.
Karl Steininger
Karl Steininger received his education in Economics and Computer Science at the University of Vienna and UC Berkeley. In research he specialized in environmental, and ecological economics, and in international trade. Since 1999 he is professor at the Department of Economics and since 2004 head of the socioeconomic programme of the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, both at the University of Graz, Austria. He is lecturer at the Vienna based University of Life Sciences, and is Research Professor at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), Berlin and chairs the Climate Change Centre Austria. Previously he held positions in the World Bank (Environment Department) and at the University of Triest, Italy (Guest Professor). He has led national and international interdisciplinary research projects for more than two decades (on behalf of the World Bank, the OECD and various national research funding agencies).
