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Internal workshop for CERE in an alpine scenery of the small village of Ammarnäs, situated in the Swedish mountains.

The meeting is held at Vindelfjällens Research Station, where researchers can gather to create an interdisciplinary meeting place. The aim is to build a knowledge centre for people interested in the relationship among environmentally related issues and developments in society. 

The Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics

The main purpose of the Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics is to provide a forum for the dissemination of high quality research in environmental economics. Initiated in 1993, a key purpose is to allow PhD students to present their work and interact with a number of leading researchers in the field.

Chemical Biological Centre KBC
KB3B1, Stora hörsalen
Umeå University, Sweden

For the seventh time the Chemical Biological Centre (KBC; www.kbc.umu.se) at Umeå University, Sweden, organizes the Renewable Energy symposium. This time it will be organised from 25-27 March 2015.
The meeting aims to strengthen and display our efforts towards research in the renewable energy field that is carried out within several strong research environments and research programmes at Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Solar Fuels, Artificial Leaf Project, Bio4Energy (www.bio4energy.se), BioImprove (www.bioimprove.se), and Trees and Crops for the future (www.tc4f.se).

The 2015 edition of UREM will include a broad and unique spectrum of topics including e.g. Bioeconomy, Advanced biomass fuels, Thermal- and Biochemical conversion technologies, Photovoltaics as well as Natural- and Artificial photosynthesis.

We welcome international participants to our interdisciplinary meeting, as well as PIs, post docs and graduate students of KBC. The poster session and selected poster presentations are important parts of the programme. The meeting has been growing over the years and in 2014 we had more than 200 participants.

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The main purpose of the Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics is to provide a forum for the dissemination of high quality research in environmental economics. Ulvön is a small, attractive fishing hamlet, located on the Swedish east-coast, approximately 500 km North of Stockholm. The number of conference participants is typically about 30. A key purpose of the Ulvön meetings is to provide an opportunity for PhD students to interact with leading researchers in their field of specialization.

Keynotes

Professor Olivier Deschenes

University of California

The Social Cost of Adapting to Climate Change

Professor Ing-Marie Gren

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

The Role of Forests in Climate Policy: Theory and Practice

Professor Jason Shogren

University of Wyoming

Commitment to Truth-telling

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18th-20th of June, 2019, Ulvön, Sweden

Keynotes

Valentina Bosetti

Department of Economics, Bocconi University

Gunnar S. Eskeland

Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics

John Hassler

IIES-Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholms universitet

Snorre Kverndokk

Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research

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22/3 Energy issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

13.00-13.15 Introduction
Runar/Tommy 

13.15-13.45 South Africa Electricity Access in Africa: Is renewables and mini-grid the answer to the access problem?
Amin Karimu, School of Economics, University of Cape Town

13.45-14.15 Energy poverty, development outcomes and transition to renewables
Philip Adom, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) 

14.15-14.30 Break

14.30-15.00 Deconstructing the landscape of energy for cooking in urban Ghana: A review
Simon Bawakyillenuo, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana 

15.00-15.30 Sustainable bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa – challenges and opportunities
Christoffer Boman, Dept. of Applied Physics, Umeå University 

15.30-16.00 Unravelling the Pastoralist Paradox – Preferences for Land-Tenure Security and Flexibility in Kenya
Göran Bostedt, Department of Forest Economcis, SLU & Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University

23/3 CERE presentations

13.00-13.15 Start-up

13.15-13.45 Effect of gate fees on waste management and household´s residual waste – Implications for a waste incineration tax
Josef “Sef” Meens Eriksson, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University 

13.45-14.15 Do Ride-hailing companies worsen congestion and air quality? Evidence from Uber in California
Chandra Krishnamurthy, Department of Forest Economcis, SLU 

14.15-14.30 Break

14.30-15.00 Who denies climate change when forests are burning?
Xiao Hu, Department of Forest Economcis, SLU 

15.00-15.30 Reforming energy prices to achieve sustainable energy consumption in the agriculture sector of Iran’s provinces: Using game approach
Parisa Pakrooh, CERE guest researcher, University of Tabriz, Iran 

15.30-16.00 CERE monthly meeting