The WCERE 2018 – 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resources Economists was a huge success with about 1,500 participants! It took place from the 25th to the 29th of June 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Several of the sessions were recorded and are available to watch on the congress website: Policy keynote lecture: “Environmental Policy and the Assault on Science” by Gina McCarthy, former administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama presidencyPlenary speech: “Compliance in Social Dilemmas: Insights from Experiments” by Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, AustraliaPlenary speech: “Climate policy that can live up to the Paris goals” with Jos Delbeke, former Director-General of the European Commission’s DG Climate Action, Gina McCarthy, Hua Wang and E. SomanathanPlenary speech: “Climate Econometrics” by Sir David F. Hendry, Oxford UniversityPolicy session: “REACH and Beyond—Effective Policy Instruments to Regulate Hazardous Chemicals” including Karolina Skog, Minister of Environment, Sweden and Bjorn Hansen, Director, European Chemicals AgencyPlenary speech: “Carbon Pricing in the Real World” by Meredith Fowlie, University of California, USAKeynote lecture: “Human Nature and Human Developmen” by Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics, UK.
The 6th World congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, was organized by the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg. The five-day congress took place at the School of Business, Economics and Law, which is part of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.The conference was organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Science and other research groups and departments in Gothenburg.
Prof. Koundouri participated to the WCERE 2018. More specifically, Prof. Koundouri gave a Thematic session on Uncertainty, Decision Theory abd Climate Change Regulation.
As Prof. Koundouri refers to the Congress: World Congress of Environmental and Resources Economists, Gothenburg, Sweden. Speaking about Decision Making Under Uncertainty/Ambiguity and Climate Change. Pictures from her session, conference dinner and the…lovely weather! Great work Prof. Thomas Sterner and team, an amazing conference …you even fixed the weather!
For more info please visit:
Wcere website: http://www.wcere2018.org/
EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: https://a1d0g2.emailsp.com/f/rnl.aspx/?fdf=w1pqt_f.ee=o_gj8=ur_&x=pv&d29:=defg&x=pv&4coi0&x=pp&qw4o&3/7f5.5d=nrzzNCLM
