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Fair Climate Policy at Global and Regional Level?

High-profile Panel Discussion and Conference on 3 June 2022

How does a globally and regionally fair climate policy work?

WIFO Director and WU Professor Gabriel Felbermayr will discuss this with Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler, Eugénia Da Conceição-Heldt (TU Munich) and Ottmar Edenhofer (TU Berlin, MCC, PIK) on 3 June 2022 at 1:00 p.m. The discussion will be led by ORF moderator Marcus Wadsak.

The panel discussion will take place in German language at the campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Building LC, Ceremonial Hall 2, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna) as part of the project "The Role of Structural Change and Distributional Effects" (ROCHADE). WU Vienna and WIFO are local partners. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Austrian National Bank are sponsoring the event.

Speakers
© Astrid Eckert, PIK, Alexander Müller, Andy Wenzel, Irene Schaur, kazuend/Unsplash

The panel discussion will be preceded by an English-language, scientific ROCHADE conference. Do ambitious climate policies prevent economic development? Do rising CO2 prices burden poor households in the global South in particular? These questions will be discussed with leading international scholars researching the development and distributional impacts of climate policy and the transformation of the global energy system.

Conference programme

Date: 3rd June 2022
Location: Building LC, Ceremonial Hall 2
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
9:30–9:45
Opening Remarks – Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, WIFO, WU Vienna
9:45–10:30
Mitigation policies in a globalized and developing world: the role of structural change and distributional effects (ROCHADE)
Prof. Jan Steckel, BTU Cottbus, MCC
10:30–10:45  Break
10:45–11:15
Putin's war, distributional justice and climate policy options – Lessons from an optimal taxation model for Germany
Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer, TU Berlin, MCC, PIK
11:15–11:45
Global energy regime complexity: the challenges ahead
Prof.in Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, TU Munich
11:45–12:15
Feasibility of climate change mitigation in the real world
Prof.in Jessica Jewell, Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg
12:15–13:00 Break
13:00-14:30
Panel Discussion with
  • Eugénia Da Conceição-Heldt, Professorin TU München
  • Ottmar Edenhofer, Professor TU Berlin, MCC, PIK
  • Gabriel Felbermayr, Direktor WIFO, Professor WU Wien
  • Leonore Gewessler, Österreichische Klimaschutzministerin
  • Marcus Wadsak, Moderation, ORF

*Please note that the WU event will be photographed and/or filmed and audio-recorded. As the controller responsible for the personal data, WU will use the photos and/or recordings for purposes that are permissible under the applicable legal regulations (e.g. § 78 of the Copyright Act [Urheberrechtsgesetz]). This includes, in particular, publication on the WU website, on social media channels, and in online or print media, for the purpose of informing the public about the performance of WU’s responsibilities as a university (public relations) and for documenting WU’s activities.


Here are a few pictures from the event:

Programm Klimapolitik 03062022
Programm Klimapolitik 03062022
download (pdf, 1.52 MB)

See also the WIFO website:

https://www.wifo.ac.at/news/klimaschutz_als_vorteil_fuer_europa

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