Economists for Future: Research frontiers in climate change economics

Event Details
Are economists sufficiently researching the climate and environmental crisis? If not, what are the most pressing research gaps? In this panel discussion hosted by the initiative “Economists for Future International”, we will first present some numbers on how much economists are publishing on the topics of climate change and biodiversity. Afterwards, three respected scholars will give us their take on the research frontiers in climate change economics. We will then jointly discuss these, exploring the horizon of economics research on climate change and environmental issues and the direction it should take. Join us for this exciting and important event about the future of climate change economics!

Prof Phoebe Koundouri
Phoebe is an environmental economist and the director of the research laboratory on socio-economic and environmental sustainability at the Athens University of Economics and Business. She is the President-elect of the European Association on Environmental and Resource Economics and a co-editor at the prestigious journal “Environmental and Resource Economics”. Her research focuses on game theoretic as well as interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable development and resource use. Next to her research, she has worked on policy reports for the United Nations.
Phoebe Koundouri

Prof (emeritus) Peter Victor
Peter is an ecological economist who has pioneered methods and models to situate economic processes within the physics-informed boundaries of our planet. By extending input-output analysis, he was the first economist to apply the physical law of the conservation of matter to the empirical analysis of a national economy. He published a book called “Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster” and is leading recent research efforts in the emerging field of ecological macroeconomics.
Peter Victor

Dr. Sharachchandra Lele
Sharachchandra is a Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Policy & Governance at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. His research interests include conceptual issues in sustainable development and sustainability, and analyses of institutional, economic, ecological, and technological issues in forest, energy, and water resource management. He attempts to incorporate strong interdisciplinarity in his own research and teaching, which straddles ecology, economics, and political science.