Vol. 2 of the Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change is finally out. Jacob Moscona and I wrote Chapter 4, on the economics of climate innovation. Short thread on what's in it, who it's for. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
Eugenie Dugoua
@eugeniedugoua.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Environmental Economics, LSE @LSEGeography.
Our OECD working paper on innovation across the critical minerals supply chain is out! (w Joelle Noailly and Olof Bystrom www.oecd.org/en/publicati... @oecd-env.bsky.social @lsegeography.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social
Critical minerals and clean energy applications
Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, graphite and rare earth elements are poised to play an increasingly important role in environmental sustainability, emerging technology and d...
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PhD students in env/energy econ: we’re circulating the CFP for LSE Environment Camp 2026 (London, 20–21 May). Submit by 6 March 2026—great chance to get feedback and meet others in the field. www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-...
Environment Camp 2026 — LSE Environment Week
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Best workshop, best keynote and best time to visit London! Submit your paper/abstract. Deadline Feb 1.
Happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor, and I’ll be spending the year on sabbatical at UC Berkeley. Looking forward to the time and space to dig into research, exchange ideas, and enjoy life in California!
The trick to any lab reorganisation is to just do the opposite of whatever you did last time
🌍 I’m hiring a full-time Pre-Doc RA in Environmental Economics & Innovation @ London School of Economics. 🔗 Deadline to apply: 26 June 2025: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #EconSky #Hiring #Predoc #ResearchAssistant #EnvironmentalEconomics #Innovation
Has the Inflation Reduction Act's place-based green industrial policy been effective? Join us online, June 25, to hear from Joep Kuezenkamp's analysis of the #USA #IRA Open to all 👇 #EconSky #environmental #economics #Biden #NetZero #renewable #energy www.tickettailor.com/events/uknee...
Large language models (#LLMs) such as #ChatGPT have increased our dependence on #DataCentres, with troubling consequences for the environment. @eugeniedugoua.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social
Eugenie Dugoua: Data centres are the factories of our modern lives - LSE Business Review
Our lives today increasingly depend on data centres for simple activities like writing emails or watching videos. The arrival of large language models such as ChatGPT has caused a significant uptick…
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The latest in our "AI, technology & society" series, this month's LSE iQ podcast asks what the environmental costs of AI really are with @couldrynick.bsky.social, @eugeniedugoua.bsky.social & @cearacarney.bsky.social Producer Anna Bevan also visits a data centre in Slough. Really worth a listen.
Is AI destroying the planet?
This episode explores the AI sustainability paradox: can AI be both a climate solution and a climate problem?
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1/ NEW RESEARCH: Our study reveals 46% of pesticides embedded in EU agricultural consumption originate from imports, despite imports constituting only 17% of consumption. This includes substances prohibited in the EU. This regulatory gap fuels leakage effects and hurts EU competitiveness 🧵
Are you a PhD student working on topics related to globalization? Come hang out with us at Dartmouth for a term as a Globalization Ph.D. Fellow! We're now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year: globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/glo...
Globalization Ph.D. Fellows
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"Drill, baby drill" is dead, at least for now. Consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates the price that many U.S. oil players need to break even—including dividend payments to shareholders and debt-service expenses—is above $62 a barrel. #EconSky #Energy t.ly/unzO1
Most relevant to the London-based crowd: we're looking for TAs for next year. Apply here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Deadline for this coming up on Feb 1, I look forward to reading lots of great submissions!
📢 Call for Papers! The 8th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics will be held in person at LSE on June 10-11, 2025. ✅ Submissions by Feb 1 📄 Full papers only (no abstracts) 🎤 Keynote: Prof. Josh Graff Zivin 🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/577G9RBZ1V79... #EnvEcon #EconSky
There is no fee for attending, and we will cover and arrange accommodation for invited speakers. Meals, snacks, and drinks will also be provided free of charge during the workshop!
📢 Call for Papers! The 8th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics will be held in person at LSE on June 10-11, 2025. ✅ Submissions by Feb 1 📄 Full papers only (no abstracts) 🎤 Keynote: Prof. Josh Graff Zivin 🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/577G9RBZ1V79... #EnvEcon #EconSky
📢 Call for Papers! The 8th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics will be held in person at LSE on June 10-11, 2025. ✅ Submissions by Feb 1 📄 Full papers only (no abstracts) 🎤 Keynote: Prof. Josh Graff Zivin 🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/577G9RBZ1V79... #EnvEcon #EconSky
Commentators emphasize that the CA fires don't discriminate. That's misleading: "only about 40% of local governments have hazard mitigation plans... when climate threats are concentrated in less affluent or non-white neighborhoods [they] are less likely to act": events.stanford.edu/event/floods...
Envionmental Behavioral Sciences Seminar, "Floods, Fires, and Fairness: Environmental Justice in Planning for Climate Hazards"
Envionmental Behavioral Sciences Seminar Floods, Fires, and Fairness: Environmental Justice in Planning for Climate Hazards As climate hazards like floods and wildfires intensify, local governments ...
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There are now more than 200 million heat pumps installed around the world. It is a mature technology but we need to see the number of heat pumps to triple to meet the climate scenarios. More in our @natureenergy.bsky.social paper 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Daily Briefing | Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold 🔗 Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/3PrcvUy 🔗 Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/4fRUaL3
I think in economics we are getting to an interesting place of (relative) epistemic humility about merhods #EconSky. Theory first reigned, then the credibility revolution arrived, and some took it to extremes. And now we are back to a more balanced approach of methodological pluralism. Thoughts?
"A good precisely specified method can establish only results of a certain kind. So, if you privilege some set of methods—for instance claiming they are best or most rigorous...—you necessarily thereby circumscribe the kinds of results that can be established." and never know what kinds we miss
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The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time) 🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
Some feel good news for this Sunday morning. Declared-extinct butterflies, willows & friends www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories
From new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish i...
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LSE has a great group of environmental folks! Check this out if you're interested in an instructional position.
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time) 🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time) 🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy
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The vast majority of respondents believe published SCC values to be downward biased. The average "best-guess" SCC ($142 per ton CO2) is more than twice their literature estimate ($60 per ton). Experts substantially underestimate published SCC, at least compared to our findings.
We also analyze SCC variation in a multi-variate setting, looking at relative changes in the SCC as a function of model structure. This summarizes information from the large body of work adding richness to earlier SCC models in the Earth system, uncertainties, impacts and representation of utility
Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties | PNAS
Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC)—requires connecting a model of the climate system with a re...
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Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...