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Webinar on the economics of climate change: Towards a climate neutral economy - what role for economic policies?

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Webinar on the economics of climate change: Towards a climate neutral economy - what role for economic policies?
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Programme

  1. 25 Mar 2021,
    01:30 PM - 01:35 PM CET

    Introduction
    Maarten Verwey, European Commission,  Director-General DG ECFIN

  2. 01:35 PM - 01:50 PM CET

    Opening speech
    Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs

  3. 01:50 PM - 02:20 PM CET

    Key-note speech
    Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

  4. 02:20 PM - 03:35 PM CET

    Session 1: The cost of inaction on climate change
    Chair:  Clara De La Torre, European Commission, Deputy Director-General DG CLIMA
    Discussant: Frank Dentener, European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre
    Speaker 1: Marshall Burke, Stanford University
    Speaker 2: John Hassler,  University of Stockholm/IIES
    Speaker 3: Juan-Carlos Ciscar, European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre
    Speaker 4: Francesco Bosello, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
    General discussion

  5. 03:35 PM - 03:50 PM CET

    Break

  6. 03:50 PM - 05:05 PM CET

    Session 2: Modelling mitigation
    Chair:  Åsa Johannesson Lindén, European Commission, DG ECFIN
    Discussant: Georg Zachmann, Bruegel
    Speaker 1: Jean Château, IMF 
    Speaker 2: Matthias Weitzel, European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre
    Speaker 3: Janos Varga, European Commission, DG ECFIN
    Speaker 4 : Benjamin Carton, IMF
    General discussion

  7. 05:05 PM - 06:05 PM CET

    Panel discussion: Macro-economics and climate action – what are the missing links?
    Chair: Géraldine Mahieu, European Commission, DG ECFIN, Director for Investment, growth and structural reforms
    Panel Introduction: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Sciences Po, Paris / EUI, Florence / Bruegel, Brussels / PIIE, Washington DC
    Panel Contributors:

    • Ian Parry, IMF
    • Christoph Böhringer, University of Oldenburg
    • Phoebe Koundouri, University of Athens
    • Tom van Ierland, European Commission, DG CLIMA
  8. 06:05 PM - 06:15 PM CET

    Closing session
    Géraldine Mahieu, European Commission, DG ECFIN, Director for Investment, growth and structural reforms

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