Presentations Directory

• June 2024

• Wed 12

  The Experimental Approach to Net Zero Policies

  June 12, 2024 / 12:00 – 13:30 Mitigation policy: evaluation

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  Presenter:

  Nils Handler

  The upcoming climate-critical decade will determine whether we progress sufficiently toward a net-zero economy to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Climate innovation, alongside major behavioral change, is critical for success, as around 35 percent of the technologies necessary for net zero are not yet developed and/or deployed1. However, despite having the most ambitious decarbonization […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Qualitative synthesis
• Wed 12

  The Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes in the Developing World: Evidence from South Africa

  June 12, 2024 / 12:00 – 13:30 Mitigation policy: evaluation

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  Presenter:

  Johannes Gallé

  The use of carbon taxes to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is gaining increasing attention, both in developed and developing economies. However, policymakers, particularly those from developing countries, still lack rigorous empirical evidence on various issues related to the effects of carbon taxes. Despite strong opposition from the industry, South Africa was the first country […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Quasi-experiments
• Wed 12

  European carbon pricing in boom and bust times

  June 12, 2024 / 12:00 – 13:30 Mitigation policy: evaluation

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  Presenter:

  Simone Maxand

  In this study, we explore the relationship between European carbon prices, energy prices and the macroeconomy in boom and bust times. Utilizing a smooth transition structural VAR model, we analyze monthly data spanning from 2006 to 2023. Our model benefits from identification through non-Gaussianity and the correlation with external carbon and energy shock series. Notably, […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis
• Wed 12

  Does Free Public Transport Reduce Carbon Emissions? Causal Evidence from Luxembourg

  June 12, 2024 / 12:00 – 13:30 Mitigation policy: evaluation

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  Presenter:

  Sachintha Fernando

  In March 2020, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to offer free public transport across all modes of transport. We leverage this unique quasi-experimental setting to evaluate whether Luxembourg’s free public transport policy has induced a shift from private motorized transport to free public transport. To assess this shift we measure the reduction […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Quasi-experiments
• Tue 11

  Lessons learned from randomized controlled experiments for energy and climate

  June 11, 2024 / 15:30 – 17:00 Demand side mitigation potential. Evidence from an ecosystem of reviews across buildings, food, and transport

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  Presenter:

  Massimo Tavoni

  Over the past 10 years, we have run over 10 large-scale field experiments with randomized counterfactuals focused on climate and energy. We have tested a variety of behavioral interventions to promote energy conservation, load shifting, and green technology adoption. High-frequency energy metering has allowed us to evaluate the impacts of these interventions at a high […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Experiments
• Tue 11

  Evidence mapping of behavioral interventions to promote sustainable mobility behavior

  June 11, 2024 / 15:30 – 17:00 Demand side mitigation potential. Evidence from an ecosystem of reviews across buildings, food, and transport

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  Presenter:

  Michael Bissel

  Behavioral interventions are considered promising approaches to promote pro-environmental behavior. Applying these interventions in high-emission sectors such as transportation could help mitigating climate change. While systematic evidence synthesis is important for a variety of stakeholders within and beyond academia, to our knowledge there are few systematic reviews and no systematic map focusing on behavioral interventions […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Evidence mapping
• Tue 11

  Rebound effect in the era of energy transition

  June 11, 2024 / 15:30 – 17:00 Demand side mitigation potential. Evidence from an ecosystem of reviews across buildings, food, and transport

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  Presenter:

  Nhat-Anh Nguyen

  This paper conducts a meta-analysis on rebound effects regarding the energy transition for household end-use services toward renewable energies (including photovoltaic, biomass, green electricity, and heat pumps). The biomass and heat pump potentially lead to the highest size of rebound effect (approximately 33%). In addition, the rebound effect regarding green electricity is about 1–3 % […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Cities and other Human Settlements

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis
• Tue 11

  Encouraging structural changes to private homes to reduce carbon emissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of (quasi-)experimental evidence

  June 11, 2024 / 15:30 – 17:00 Demand side mitigation potential. Evidence from an ecosystem of reviews across buildings, food, and transport

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  Presenter:

  Sven Hansteen

  Reducing emissions from the building sector is one of the key steps in combating climate change, as the building sector is responsible for about 38% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Private households have opportunities to reduce a significant proportion of these emissions by improving the energy efficiency of their buildings, e.g. by refurbishing their insulation […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis
• Tue 11

  Behavioural interventions change transport behavior but have only a limited impact on transport mode split

  June 11, 2024 / 15:30 – 17:00 Demand side mitigation potential. Evidence from an ecosystem of reviews across buildings, food, and transport

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  Presenter:

  Aneeque Javaid

  Prevalent systems of land transport, centred around automobility, are energy inefficient and involve high economic, health and GHG emissions-related costs. As one class of solutions, demand-side behavioural change interventions (or soft policy interventions) are promoted to reduce car use and shift travellers to low-carbon transport modes. However, the relative effectiveness of such interventions in initiating […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Cities and other Human Settlements

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis
• Tue 11

  An Evidence and Gap Map of the ex-post literature on carbon pricing

  June 11, 2024 / 11:30 – 13:00 Synthesizing the evidence from carbon pricing policy evaluations 

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  Presenter:

  Niklas Döbbeling-Hildebrandt

  After more than 30 years of experience with implemented climate policies and a rapid growth in the scientific literature on these policies, there is little overview about what policies have been empirically assessed for which policy outcomes. This may lead to duplicated research efforts and hinder rigorous syntheses of available evidence. To identify crucial research […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis, Mixed-methods synthesis
• Tue 11

  How effective were the Chinese regional emissions-trading schemes? A meta-analytic answer

  June 11, 2024 / 11:30 – 13:00 Synthesizing the evidence from carbon pricing policy evaluations 

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  Presenter:

  Arne R. Weiss

  China is by far the largest CO2 emitter in the world and its emissions keep on rising. This makes China the single-most important country to study the effectiveness of national mitigation policies. One key pillar in China’s effort to reach its Paris targets while maintaining rapid economic growth are emissions-trading schemes (ETS). Starting in 2013, […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis, Policy evaluation – Quasi-experiments
• Tue 11

  Five decades of research on border carbon adjustments – a systematic review of the literature

  June 11, 2024 / 11:30 – 13:00 Synthesizing the evidence from carbon pricing policy evaluations 

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  Presenter:

  Michael Jakob

  In a world of nationally determined climate action, ambitious climate policies in some regions that are not matched by similar efforts in trade partners entail the risk of carbon leakage. Carbon border adjustment mechanisms that impose carbon costs comparable to those of domestic producers are a way to level the playing field and alleviate leakage […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis, Qualitative synthesis