This is good news for the future of our planet, says Kelly de Bruin, associated member of CERE and Research Officer at The Economic and Social Research Institute on Ireland. The IPCC 1.5 degrees report, released a few days ago, warns for deep and immediate climate change action to limit severe climate impacts which makes models that describes the global interplay between the economy and the climate especially important.
Bland andra CERE:s Runar Brännlund berättar i P1 morgon den 8 oktober (2018) om sin favoritkandidat till Riksbankens pris i ekonomisk vetenskap i Alfred Nobels minne, Martin Weitzman. Brännlund lyfter Weitzmans arbete kring hur miljöförstörande verksamheter kan styras politiskt och kritiken mot BNP som endast kan mäta marknadspriser, något som miljövaror sällan har.
Sweden has a goal to reach 100 per cent renewable energy production by 2040. According to CERE researcher Jurate Jaraite, now is the time to discuss more flexible renewable electricity policies.
CERE member Mattias Vesterberg ventured to Bilbao to exchange knowledge at the renowned Basque Center for Climate Change where economists, biologists and ecologists work together to tackle climate change. Learn more about his visit.
For seventeen weeks, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics will present their work in relation to the 17 Sustainable Development goals. For the first two goals, #1-No poverty and #2-Zero Hunger, we learn more about some of the research by CEREs Göran Bostedt.
Soleiman Mohammadi Limael, docent vid den skogliga institutionen, Guilan universitetet i Iran besökte CERE den 20 september (2018) för att diskutera framtida samarbeten mellan Sverige och Iran och främst universiteten SLU, Guilan och Umeå.
Jussi Lintunen and Jussi Uusivuori show in their winning article that an increase in the use of wood, despite it not being emission free, is optimal. However, this is so only if the biomass stock first increases. A subsidy on forest growth and tax on harvest leads to forest owners postponing their harvest, which increases biomass stock and carbon sequestration. As the rotation approaches its maximum level of sustainability, the harvest yield will increase and price on roundwood will fall, so that it can become optimal to use roundwood in energy generation.
Lintunen, J. and Uusivuori, J. (2016) On the economics of forests and climate change: Deriving optimal policies. Journal of Forest Economics 24, 130-156
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”Atmosfären bryr sig inte om varifrån utsläppen sker. Vi behöver få ut så mycket som möjligt per satsad krona.” Runar Brännlund diskuterar med Ola Hansén Världsnaturfonden om var kraften ska läggas när det kommer till kampen om klimatförändringar i Sveriges Radios program Studio ett 16 augusti 2018.
Research by CERE PhD Brian Danley shows that the more a forest owner believes that the state is responsible for fulfilling environmental goals the less likely that their non-certified forest will contain set-asides. Owners of larger, non-certified properties are more likely to report that they have left set-asides. (Click on headline to read more)
