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Andrei Marcu, Co-Chair of the conference and its scientific committee, and Senior Fellow International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition.

Michael Mehling, Co-Chair of the conference and its scientific committee, and Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Relevant research themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

        Learning from past and current experience: Case studies on carbon pricing design and implementation, performance review, and evaluation, comparing carbon pricing systems and their effects, understanding actors and affected markets, results of modeling to assess/analyzeenvironmental, macroeconomic, and distributional outcomes of different approaches, etc.;

      ​  The political economy of carbon pricing: Political acceptance and feasibility of carbon pricing, use of carbon pricing revenue, distributional effects of carbon pricing, dealing with adverse impacts of carbon pricing, etc.;

      ​  Carbon pricing and development: Financing sustainable development with carbon pricing, fiscal aspects of carbon pricing, co-benefits of carbon pricing (indirect effects on pollution, employment implications, economic diversification), pathways to a just transition, etc.;

      ​  Carbon pricing and competitiveness: Understanding impacts of carbon pricing on competitiveness, effects, and limitations of policy options to address leakage and competitiveness concerns (free allocation, tax exemptions, alternative approaches), etc.;

      ​  Role of carbon pricing in decarbonization: Complementary policies and policy interactions, hybrid approaches to carbon pricing, dynamic effects and climate policy ambition, role of carbon pricing in innovation and energy transition, internal carbon pricing, etc.;

      ​  Emerging frontiers of carbon pricing: Linkage and convergence of carbon pricing systems, policy transfer, and diffusion across jurisdictions, extending carbon pricing to new sectors (aviation, shipping, agriculture and forestry), carbon pricing under the Paris Agreement (e.g. operationalization of Art. 6 and NDC (Partnership) support), etc.

The CPLC Research Conference Scientific Committee is composed of:

 

  Co-Chairs:

        Andrei Marcu, Senior Fellow, ICTSD

         Michael Mehling, Deputy Director CEEPR, MIT

 

  Scientific Committee:

         William Acworth, Project Manager, ICAP

         Susanne Åkerfeldt, Senior Legal Adviser, Swedish Ministry of Finance

         Ottmar Edenhofer, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

         Arnibhan Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra

         Sharlin  Hemraj, Senior Economist, National Treasury, South Africa

         Rachael Jonassen, Director - Greenhouse Gas Management Program, George Washington University

         Emilio Lebre la Rovere,  Professor, Energy Planning Program, Federal Univesity of Rio

         Duan Maosheng, Professor and Director China Carbon Market Center, Tshingua University, China

         Andrei Marcu, Senior Fellow, ICTSD

         Michael Mehling, Deputy Director CEEPR, MIT

         Adele Morris, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies | Policy Director - Climate and Energy Economics Project, The Brookings Institute

         Gzregorz Peszko, Lead Economist, World Bank

         Mandy Rambharos, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Manager, ESKOM

         Youba Sokona, Special Advisor, The South Center

         Rob Stavins, Professor, Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School