For this session you will be listening in to a webinar given for the Environmental Economics Unit, at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg.

For this seminar we have two unusually interesting and maybe controversial guests this coming week. David Victor is one of the most prominent political scientists in the US. Together with Danny Cullenward who is a climate economist and lawyer they have written a book about climate policy which is deeply critical of carbon pricing. The critique mainly focuses on tradable permit trade which they see as an invitation to corruption. For those of us who believe in emissions pricing it is deeply worrying. The book is well written and very influential so it is important to understand their critique and think about it.

See even more information and zoom details in the information below.

After the webinar, that goes on between 14-15.30, we will meet at our usual zoom link for this course to discuss the seminar we listened to, from 15.45-16.30.

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Dear all,

The next speaker in the EEU seminar series is David Victor who is a professor of innovation and public policy at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. The seminar will take place on Zoom next Monday at 14:00-15:30.

David, together with his co-author will give us a talk about his book Making Climate Policy Work (coauthored with Danny Cullenward) that tackles issues in implementing market-based climate policies (see description below).

This time we are inviting a larger audience and have decided to organize the session in panel format as a Zoom webinar. Audience participation is strongly encouraged but it will also be moderated, i.e. you must request the host to open your mic for you by raising your hand or by writing a question in the chat. We may also use the Q&A functionality provided in Zoom.

We are expecting a very interesting discussion and hope to see many of you there!

Seminar details:

Speaker: David G. Victor

Topic: Making Climate Policy Work

When: Monday, February 28th at 14:00–15:30

Where: Zoom: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/68243564125?pwd=ZWlENStDMTg5K2lhRGJuRGZFSWlFQT09 (Passcode: EPI2022)

Description

For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale.

Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and maintaining market-based policies render them ineffective nearly everywhere they have been applied. Reforms can help around the margins, but markets’ problems are structural and won’t disappear with increasing demand for climate solutions. Facing that reality requires relying more heavily on smart regulation and industrial policy – government-led strategies – to catalyze the transformation that markets promise, but rarely deliver.