Assistant Professor of Economics: Heriot-Watt
See details:
https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/4369
Deadline for submitting applications: 13/07/2025
Webinar WCEREA: Political Economy of Carbon Pricing
September 9, 2025
9:00 – 10:30 a. m., Pacific time
Online via Zoom
The World Council of Associations of Economists and Environmental Resources (WCEREA) is pleased to announce a webinar on ‘The political economy of pricing carbon’, which will be held on September 9, 2025, from 9:00 to 10:30. m., Pacific time (refer to the converter time here).
The web seminar
There are many initiatives of fixation of carbon pricing around the world. However, in general, the level of these prices is less than the need to mitigate emissions in a manner sufficient to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement on time. One of the main reasons that explain the low-carbon taxes and the high ceilings of carbon seems to be political. The authorities are not willing to pay the political cost of a higher price of carbon. The possible increase in energy costs and the way in which this increase will be distributed between the different income groups is not the only factor that determines the political cost. Part of the cost of the policy is due to the carbon price deal with a global problem, not a national one. Therefore, international cooperation plays an important role in the political economy of national carbon price.
To induce the level and speed of mitigation is unlikely to reach the carbon pricing alone to levels politically feasible, several colleagues have suggested that climate policy should take a more ‘holistic.’ According to this approach, carbon taxes should complement other instruments, such as subsidies to R & D instruments more ‘prescriptive’ and an adjustment mechanism on the borders of the carbon. In this scenario, you are by answering some important questions: what Are doomed to failure the high prices of carbon as instruments of climate policy? How does the international cooperation to the possibilities of observing carbon pricing effective in the future? What role should play an adjustment mechanism in border by carbon emissions? In this webinar, we brought together three distinguished scholars to present their views on these urgent issues.
Invited speakers
Stanford Graduate
School of Business
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
MIT Sloan School of Management
Registration
The event will be held online through the platform Zoom.
Organizers
The webinar is organized by the Board of Directors of the WCEREA.
Member associations of WCEREA
AAERE, Asian Association of Environmental Economics and Resources
AERE, Association of Environmental Economists and Resources
AFAERE, African Association of Environmental Economists and Resources
EAERE, European Association of Environmental Economists and Resources
Association partner of WCEREA
LAERE, Latin american Association of Environmental Economists and Resources
Members of the Board of Directors of WCEREA
Ken-Ichi Akao, Budy Resosudarmo (AAERE)
Sheila Marie Cavanagh Olmstead, Randall Walsh (AERE)
Nnemeka Chukwuone, Precious Zikhali (AFAERE)
Phoebe Koundouri (President), Simone Borghesi (EAERE)
Marcelo Caffera (LAERE)
Annual workshop SETI 2025
Information about the event
Date
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 — Saturday, August 16, 2025
Place
University of Gothenburg
Contact
Christopher Vasquez-Quezada
Link
Please provide us your article!
Type of event
Annual meeting of SETI 2025
Dates and place: University of Gothenburg. 13-16 August of 2025.
The annual meeting of SETI this year will feature regional workshops and will be expanded to a four-day event to allow for in-depth discussions on and the collaboration in meetings of the strategic planning in order to coordinate the different regions of the world. The place and the final dates will be confirmed as soon as possible.
The goal of the meeting is twofold. first, to advance the strategic plan of SETI for the next quadrennium (2025-2028). Along 2025, the activities of SETI will focus on the key issues identified through semi-structured interviews and sessions of working groups of the network EfD and other researchers at SETI. The annual meeting will provide a specific opportunity for a large part of this work. A fundamental goal, in line with the mandates of funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation (Sida) for EfD and, therefore, for SETI, is to achieve alignment with the political priorities of the centers EfD africans, in particular in sub-saharan Africa (SSA). However, it was also taken into account the coordination and opportunities at the global level, as well as the potential to leverage other funding opportunities complementary.
In the second place, we will continue to share the results of the research and interacting on the needs in the matter of formulation of policies for energy transition.
Call for papers
We invite researchers to submit manuscripts of original research or extended abstracts (≤1000 words) on a wide range of issues related to the transitions to sustainable energy, with special emphasis on emerging priorities of the collaboration SETI. Although, as usual, you accept all of the issues related to the transitions to sustainable energy, it is strongly recommended to submit papers related to the following areas:
- Energetic transitions in the kitchen and heating: address energy poverty, indoor air pollution and deforestation solution that is more clean.
- Electrical networks of autonomous and connected to the network: to overcome the barriers in the markets self-employed, to improve the reliability of the network and to ensure equitable access to electricity.
- Impacts of renewable energy: explore the results of social, economic and environmental performance of renewable energy technologies, especially in sub-saharan Africa.
- Nexus between technology, energy and air pollution: to investigate the interactions between energy systems and the quality of the air, focusing on the strategies of reducing the pollution.
- Nexus between energy and gender: promoting transitions in the energy level playing field in terms of gender, ensuring that recognize and address the roles and needs of women.
- Energy transition that is inclusive and fair: what does this mean and how you can support it with human and financial capital?
- The role of energy access interventions and energy in the development of social resilience in the face of increasing macroeconomic uncertainty, policy and the natural systems (for example, arising from climate change).
In addition, we encourage you to submit contributions on the following priorities and recent of the program’s Green Economy Inclusive (IGE): to Overcome the dependence of the biomass and achieving energy efficiency. We also welcome with interest the work that will try to summarize the lessons learned in different contexts, or that focus on the contextual characteristics that give rise to systematic variations in the dynamics and the results of the energetic transitions.
Call for session proposals for regional workshops
Given the regional focus expanded to the Annual Meeting SETI 2025, also invite you to submit session proposals creative to explore key issues of the energy transition in different regions. Can be addressed deliberately a matter of energy transition in a single region or sub-region, or may encourage interregional interactions (but with the regional relevance specified and articulated in the proposal).
We encourage creativity, but these sessions can include:
- Opening speeches, round tables, workshops and plenary discussions moderated on the challenges of the energy transition specific to each region.
- Sessions on policies multinational companies (in particular those covering the sub-saharan Africa) that allow the participation of professionals and policy makers.
- Round tables of policy-makers to reflect on their key knowledge gaps in relation to the policy objectives of the energy transition.
- Collaborative sessions that bring together researchers, policy makers, and funders to discuss research agendas stunning and funding opportunities.
- Research schemes or ideas presented to policy makers.
The aim of the workshops is to contribute to the development of concept notes in support of the following objectives:
- Develop and initiate research agendas relevant to the policies through processes of co-creation adapted to the objectives of the sub-groups, collaborative, ensuring the alignment with the priorities of the funders.
- Identify and pursue funding opportunities, assigning responsibilities to key members of SETI to develop applications for competitive grants.
- Establish a plan of participation for policy makers and disseminate the results of the research effectively through policy reports, blogs, and outreach materials created together.
- Create a mechanism of communication (for example, virtual meetings, online forums) to keep the collaboration between the members of SETI 2025 to 2027.
- Publish blog posts and contents on social networks after each meeting of the working group to highlight the debates, and most important ideas.
Submission process
Send your article/summary enlarged and/or session proposals before the march 23, 2025.
The submission form is located here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1ZzUle16jEX7BzM.
If you cannot access the form, please submit your proposal to SETI@udec.cl.
We recommend you to send the proposals as soon as possible, especially the proposals for sessions on policies, because they require more planning time.
Important information:
- You can send multiple entries, but each should be on a separate form. Please send a separate extended abstracts/manuscripts and ideas for sessions.
- We will notify authors of papers and sessions accepted during the month of April.
- Participation in the workshop will be free and open to all, although it will be need to register first.
- It is possible to grant total or partial financing for the travel expenses to participants from countries of low and middle-income, as well as the students in those same regions. Will be reported in future communications to the authors of the accepted papers.
If you have any question, please contact with Christopher Vasquez-Quezada (coordinator of the project SETI) in SETI@udec.cl.
We look forward to your contributions and an interesting debate on the transition to sustainable energy in SETI 2025.
Sincerely
The Initiative for the Transition to Sustainable Energy
XXVI Annual Conference on Bioeconomy
St. John’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Invitation to the seminar web of EfD with Carlos Chavez
Dear member of the EfD:
We are pleased to invite you to the webinar series EfD with Carlos Chávez.
Carlos Chavez is professor of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Talca, Chile. It is a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research (INCAR) and senior researcher of the Initiative for Environment and Development (EfD). His research focuses on the design and evaluation of environmental policy and natural resources.
Details of the webinar:
Title: Exclusion and management of common resources: experimental evidence
Date: June 25, 2025
Time: 15:00 CET
Location: Zoom
Note: The webinars of EfD are FREE for all. Please, consider sharing this message with your network of contacts.
The recordings are available on the YouTube channel of EfD.
Hope to see you at the webinar.
Sincerely
EfD Global Hub
Job opportunity: Research Assistant at EfD
Deadline to apply: may 23, 2025
The Initiative of Environmental Economics for Development (EfD) invites you to apply for a position of Research Assistant (Research Assistant).
General description: EfD is a unit of the School of Business, Economics, and Law of the University of Gothenburg, and leads a global network of centers for research in environmental economics, mainly in the Global South. Its mission is to strengthen the capacity in environmental economics to support processes of formulation of public policies aimed at poverty reduction and sustainable development.
The Research Assistant will work closely with the coordination of the collaborative programs and the research manager of EfD Global Hub, supporting the management of programs, research projects and funding applications.
Main responsibilities:
- Support the management and monitoring of research projects of EfD.
- Assist in the planning, documentation and reporting of collaborative programs.
- Monitor results of external projects and funding applications.
- Organize meetings, workshops, and support the logistics of the annual meeting of the EfD.
- To help in the collection, analysis and visualization of data for research projects and proposals.
- Contribute to the communication of research and policy at the website, social networks and other media.
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Economics with specialization in environment or development.
- Demonstrable experience in project management, especially in administrative matters.
- Good analytical skills, supported by jobs’s degree or scientific publications.
- Working knowledge of Stata or R.
- Excellent command of English, both written and oral.
More information and application: see the full announcement here:
Consulting: WinEED Coordinator Opportunity
Deadline for applications: may 7, 2025
The Initiative of Environmental Economics for Development (EfD) invites applications for the position of Coordinator of the Network of Women in Environmental Economics for Development (WinEED).
General description: EfD conducts research of high impact and policy relevance to addressing the environmental challenges and development in the Global South, with particular attention to sub-saharan Africa. In this framework, the program WinEED aims to strengthen the leadership of women in the economy, environment, promoting gender equality and solutions that are more inclusive to the environmental problems and poverty.
The coordinator of WinEED will be responsible for:
- Lead the Working Group on Gender.
- Develop and implement a Plan of Action for Gender 2025-2027.
- Strengthen the membership, communication, and the activities of the network.
- Mobilize resources and coordinate with partners and donors.
- Promote the integration of a gender perspective in all institutional activities of EfD.
Required profile:
- Master’s degree (M. A. or M. Sc.) in a discipline relevant.
- More than 10 years of experience in managing international projects, especially in the academic field.
- Demonstrated experience in the coordination of research networks and programmes on gender equality.
- Skills in resource mobilization and proposal writing.
- Demonstrated commitment to gender equality and diversity in the academic environment.
Type of contract: Consultancy
Duration: 10 months, and 27 days, with the possibility of renewal.
Place of work: CATIE, Costa Rica.
How to apply: Send in separate files (in PDF format):
- Letter of nomination
- Curriculum vitae
- Technical proposal (maximum three pages)
- Financial proposal
The e-mail address: vacante@catie.ac.cr
Important: applications will Not be considered that do not comply with the submission of the documents in separate files.
Webinar EfD: Carbon Taxes in Nigeria
Date: may 28, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM (CET)
Place: Zoom
Cost: Free
The Initiative of Environmental Economics for Development (EfD) invites all interested community to participate in the next EfD Webinar Series, led by professor NwaJesus Anthony Onyekuru.
Title of the webinar:
Navigating the path towards the implementation of the carbon tax in Nigeria: Lessons from the removal of fuel subsidies
About the speaker:
NwaJesus Anthony Onyekuru is Professor of Resource Economics and Environment in the Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. In addition, he is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on the politics of Resource and Environment (REPRC-EfD Nigeria). It has an outstanding background in issues of environmental policy and sustainable development.
Important:
- The webinar is completely free and open to the public.
- Will be made through the platform Zoom.
- The recordings will be available later on the YouTube channel of EfD.
👉 Don’t miss it! Share this invitation with your professional network.
Webinar: Leadership in Conservation & Change
Date: Thursday, may 8, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (ET)
Platform: Zoom
Registration: click here to register
Language: English
Cost: Free – includes a code of special scholarship for the next academic year leadership of CSF in August.
Join this inspiring webinar on the critical role of capacity development in the improvement of the results in conservation and the empowerment of new generations of environmental leaders.
What will you learn?
- How the language of economics can be a powerful tool for conservation.
- Why it is key to consider the economic value of nature into decision making.
- Real-life experiences of environmental leadership in local Sea Espinosa, graduated from the course of CSF.
- Questions and answers session with all the speakers.
Panelists:
- Kim Bonine – Head of Capacity Development, the Stanford Natural Capital Project
- David Johnson – Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison / Instructor of CSF
- Sea Espinosa – Fellow in Conservation and Justice, the American Bird Conservancy
Moderator:
- Natalia Sanin Acevedo – Director of the Institute of Training Numbers for Nature, Conservation Strategy Fund
👉 Don’t miss this opportunity to see how the economy can be a partner of strategic importance for the conservation. Share with your professional network and participate.
Call for special sessions – Congress LAERE 2025
¡Submit your proposal!
Deadline: November 15, 2024
Invited the members of the Latin american Association of Economists and Environmental Resources (LAERE) to submit proposals for complete sessions for the 1st Congress of the Latin american Association of Economists and Environmental Resources. The Congress will take place in Bogotá, Colombia, from 19 to 21 march 2025. This event provides practitioners and academics with the opportunity to increase the visibility of their research and to promote our field of study.
The sessions have a duration of 75 minutes. Each special session is organized by a president and three (3) speakers you have 25 minutes each. It requires a slide presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) for each oral presentation, but the online submission system also allows participants to upload full-text articles or other types of material support.
Participants who wish to take part in the event with a session organized by LAERE need to send a file with the following information:
· The title and a summary of the session
· The focus of the session in terms of thematic categories spacious (for example, agricultural policy and rural)
· The name, affiliation and contact details of the chairman of the session
· The author(s), title and abstract of each contribution
The phrase “Call for Sessions Submission,” should appear in the file name.
Link to send the proposal: https://live.eventtia.com/es/call-for-sessions-laere
The session proposals submitted without all required information will not be considered. Will be sent confirmations electronic proposals received to all senders.
The deadline to submit your proposal to LAERE is on the 15th of November, 2024.
The proposals will be pre-screened by a committee appointed by LAERE.
It is expected notification of selection for December 10.
For more information or to discuss your participation, please contact info@laere.org.