Events
The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) holds events throughout the year, aimed at a wide range of people, from students to researchers, policy makers to businesses.
These events are advertised on our Twitter| page.
We also archive information and useful materials on all our past events|.
February 2012
Seminar: The Role of Consumption in Driving CO2 Emissions (Leeds)
Part of the CCCEP / SRI seminar series 2011-2012
Date and time: Wednesday 15 February, 4 to 5.15pm
Location: School of Earth and Environment, seminar room 8.119, University of Leeds (map and information|)
The seminar explores many of the key issues surrounding the UK's GHG consumption-based emissions from a methodological and political perspective. The presentation will address the recent trends in consumption-based emissions, consider the robustness of measurements, address issues of carbon leakage, identify policy options and international responses.
Speaker: John Barrett|, Chair in Sustainability Research at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the University of Leeds, and associate of CCCEP
Seminar: 'Clean' or 'dirty' energy: evidence on a renewable energy resource curse
The above paper, written by Caterina Gennaioli and Massimo Tavoni, will be presented. Taking a political economy approach, the link between public support schemes for renewable energy and the potential scope for rent seeking and corruption is analysed.
The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested empirically using a panel data of Italian provinces for the period 1990-2007. The authors found the following: i) criminal association activity increased more in windy provinces and especially after the introduction of a more favorable policy regime and, ii) the expansion of the wind energy sector has been driven by both the wind level and the quality of political institutions, through their effect on criminal association.
Date: Monday 27 February, 1 to 2pm
Location: New Academic Building, NAB 2.08, LSE (maps and directions|)
Speaker: Caterina Gennaioli, post doctoral researcher at the Grantham Research Institute
Further reading: Paper on 'Clean' or 'dirty' energy|
March 2012
Seminar: Permanence in REDD+ Schemes: empirical evidence from Kenya on labour-time allocation (LSE)
Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series: Lent Term 2012 Seminars
Date and time: Monday 5 March, 5 to 6.30pm
Location: Kingsway, KSW1.04, LSE (maps and directions|)
Speaker: Stefanie Engel (ETH Zürich)
Public lecture: Zero Carbon Britain (Leeds)
Date and time: Tuesday 6 March 2012, 5.30 to 6.30 pm
Location: Geography East LT (G.23), University of Leeds|
To help us understand how we can meet our 21st century challenges, CAT's Zero Carbon Britain project assembles and integrates cutting-edge findings from a wide range of leading researchers to show what a genuinely sustainable future could look like. We can create a new kind of economy; stable in the long term, locally resilient, but still active in a global context, rich in quality jobs, a strong sense of purpose and reliant on indigenous, inexhaustible energy.
Speaker: Paul Allen (External Relations Director, Centre for Alternative Technology)
Attendance: As places are limited, please email Tina Schmieder| to reserve a place
More information: Full abstract of 'Zero Carbon Britain' lecture| | Biography of Paul Allen|
Seminar: Skills Constraints and Low-Carbon Transitions (Leeds)
Part of the CCCEP / SRI seminar series 2011-2012
Date and time: Wednesday 14 March, 4 to 5.15pm
Location: School of Earth and Environment, seminar room 8.119, University of Leeds (map and information|)
The transition to a low-carbon economy will require sufficient people with appropriate qualifications and skills to develop manufacture install and operate the low-carbon technologies and approaches.
The actual skills and numbers required are uncertain and will depend on the speed and direction of the transition pathways. However, beyond some global estimates, there has been a lack of studies of the skills requirements in sufficient detail to inform training provision. Given the importance of the low-carbon transition, this paper argues that more attention needs to be paid to the skills and training aspects, in order to inform firms' strategies and government policies.
This presentation highlights the potential for a range of market, government and governance failures to impact on the transition to a low-carbon economy. In particular, four generic skills constraints and four low-carbon specific skills constraints are identified and discussed. Some remedies are also put forward - without these, the prospect of a slower, costlier and less employment intensive transition to a low-carbon economy looms.
Speaker: Nick Jagger |
May 2012
Seminar: Developing and Deploying Low-Carbon Energy Technologies: prospects, progress and policies (Leeds)
Part of the CCCEP / SRI seminar series 2011-2012
Date and time: Wednesday 16 May, 4 to 5.15pm
Location: School of Earth and Environment, seminar room 8.119, University of Leeds (map and information|)
Abstract to follow.
Speaker: Peter Taylor