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Lecture #4: An economic perspective on climate change

Dear Students,

As usual the lecture was a great experience and I would like to thank you all for being engaging with our guest lecturer PhD Candidate Fabian Levihn.

I would like to point out some key points of the presentation:

  • What should be the price to reach the goal of reducing GHG emissions?
  • Who is going to pay?
  • Currently, the value for CERs (Certified Emission Reduction) or carbon credits is no longer a good incentive to corporations.
  • Biofuels are considered carbon neutral under the economic perspective. What about other perspectives, how do they perceive biofuels?
  • When making a decision about reducing emissions, what are we really substituting them with?
  • We cannot solve the problem without a systems perspective.

I would recommend you all to think about these points and, please, feel free to add comments here. We all can benefit from a discussion.

The file containing the presentation is available in Bilda. That's all folks!

Have a great weekend and see you all on Monday morning.

Cheers, Alessandro

 

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