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- Conference
- Posted 1 week ago
HEDGE 2024: Health, Environment, Development and Growth Economics: New Perspective and Challenges
Between 2 Sep and 4 Sep in Pisa, Italy -
- Workshop
- Posted 2 months ago
Call for Papers - 4th ECO-SOS Workshop on Economics and Sustainability
Between 26 Sep and 27 Sep in Reus, Spain -
- Conference
- Posted 3 months ago
XIX CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS
Between 6 Jun and 7 Jun in Granada, Spain -
- Workshop
- Posted 3 months ago
10th Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics
Between 20 Jun and 21 Jun in O Grove, Spain -
- Ranking
- Posted 3 years ago
The Best Books on Environmental Economics
In our current state of isolation, it’s important not to forget about some of the other issues which still beset the human race, not least climate change. Due to the fact that so fewer people are travelling both around the world and domestically each day, the levels of greenhouse gases being emitted are far lower than they have been in recent years.
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- A Warming Earth
- Posted 4 years ago
The Case to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The continued existence of fossil fuel subsidies in a time of their almost universal condemnation reveals something about the governments that rule us, something pernicious, but also something all-too-predictable. Like no other area, they expose a gulf between rhetoric and action, a disconnect so stark that, if the risks it posed were less catastrophic, would almost be comical. Back in reality, though, the cognitive dissonance, cynicism, or whatever its cause, serves only to warm our planet and threaten all life.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 4 years ago
The Top Jobs in Environmental Economics
If you're a current economics student and you've chosen to specialise in environmental economics, then the good news is that there are a ton of job opportunities in this field. With the growing awareness of environmental issues and concern for sustainability, you can find work in all sorts of areas. But what are some of the specific jobs that you could do as an environmental economist? Today we're looking at possible career paths to give you some ideas about the kind of work which you might like to do once you graduate.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 4 years ago
The Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy
In 2018, United States President Donald Trump said his administration was putting more coal miners back into work, having previously rattled on about how important coal jobs were to the future of the US. Perhaps it should be no surprise that his words were empty. The Trump administration has added a negligible 2,000 coal mining jobs since it took control, and whatever bump in coal production 2018 saw was quick to fade away. Obviously, Trump’s pledge to keep the industry alive was a political stunt, not a decision based on the economic realities of the moment; for if it had been, Trump wouldn’t have been talking about coal, but about renewable energy.