I Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2019 Abstract The aim of this article is to assess the efficacy of the Paris Agreement to generate policies and incentivize actions that can contribute to halt climate cha

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Erez Maggor, Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. He studies the political economy of industrial policy and innovation. Register here &

Mark Jaccard, Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, VancouverAbstractThere are obvious reasons why for three decades most jurisdictions have failPublic surveys and observation of real-world GHG reduction successes suggest that explicit carbon pricing (carbon tax and perhaps cap-and-trade) can be substantially more politically difficult than certain regulatory policies for shifting the energy system on to a deep decarbonization trajectory. Nonetheless, some people have argued that carbon pricing is an essential GHG reduction policy, suggesting that sincere politicians must do carbon pricing no matter how politically difficult. But the claim that carbon pricing is essential is factually incorrect. Deep decarbonization can be achieved entirely with regulations. Regulatory policies are unlikely to be as economically efficient as carbon pricing. But not all regulations perform identically when it comes to the economic-efficiency criterion. Flexible regulations have some attributes that make them low cost relative to regulations that require adoption of specific technologies.This talk provides evidence that assesses both the relative economic efficiency of policies and their relative political acceptability. The findings reported here suggest that some kinds of flexible regulations can perform significantly better than explicit carbon pricing in terms of relative political cost per tonne reduced while performing only marginally worse in terms of economic cost per tonne reduced. Presumably, this type of trade-off information could be of value to politicians who sincerely want deep decarbonization but would also like to be rewarded with re-election so that they and competing politicians see the value in ambitious and sustained GHG reduction efforts.

Physica Scripta 89 128005 (7pp) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abstract  Global catastrophic risk is a term that refers to the risk of the occurrence of an event that kills at least millions of people

In E. Pekkarinen, & T. Tuukkanen (Eds.), Lapsen oikeudet ja maapallon tulevaisuus. Lapsiasiavaltuutetun toimiston julkaisuja 2020:4. [A climate of anxiety or enthusiasm? Means of climate communicatio

Michael Mäs, ETH Zurich Economic and psychological research has led to significant improvements in our theories of human behavior. Yet, a considerable part of individuals’ behavior remains unexplained

Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online OBS! This seminar is part of a workshop and therefor takes place on a different weekday and time than usual. Research semi