Jeroen van den Bergh questions Paris climate agreement
ICREA Research Professor at ICTA-UAB Jeroen van den Bergh gave the seminar “Climate policy coordination: Beyond Paris” on the commitments agreed at the COP21 Climate Conference held in Paris in December.
Jeroen van den Bergh states that the total of pledges under the Paris climate agreement will not be achieved as four systemic effects will frustrate effective control of emissions: oil market responses, energy rebound, carbon leakage, and environmental problem shifting. Their potential joint impact is illustrated by a simple quantification. An amendment to the Paris agreement is proposed to resolve this problem.
ICREA Research Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) since September 2007. In addition, he is professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Faculty of Economics & Business Administration and the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam (VUA).
He has more than 170 publications in international journals and wrote/edited 16 books. He was awarded three prizes for articles and a book, and two general environmental science prizes, namely the Royal/Shell Prize 2002 for research on “Sustainable Development, Environment and Resources” the IEC Premi (Sant Jordi) de Medi Ambient 2011. He is editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal “Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions” and editor of the Edward Elgar book series “Advances in Ecological Economics”.
More than 20 researchers finished a PhD thesis under his guidance. His research is on the intersection of economics, environmental science and innovation studies. Past work includes dematerialization and recycling, ecological-economic modelling, construction of aggregate indicators, growth-versus-environment, spatial/international aspects of environmental policy and fisheries economics. Work in recent years involves evolutionary economics and environmental innovation, behavioural-environmental economics, and the economics of climate change.
Slides about lecture for download HERE