St. John's College Cambridge, UK
2026/09/07: 27th BIOECON Conference
This conference will bring together researchers and policymakers working at the interface of economic development, conservation, and environmental policy
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Prof Ben Groom has been invited to Australia in 2026 as an Eminent Speaker of the Economic Society.
Prof Ben Groom has been invited to participate in the Carbon Offsets Workshop at Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE).
envecon this year has two main aims: the first is to keep nature in the conversation and the second is to honour two leaders in environmental economics, Prof Willis (d. 2025) and Prof Pearce (d. 2005).
Florence, Italy
2025/12/02: FSR Climate Annual Conference 2025
The Climate Area of the FSR is pleased to announce its 11th Annual Conference on the Economic Assessment of European Climate Policies.
Ben Groom will be presenting a Masterclass on 'Some Economics of Biodiversity' for Royal Economic Society
Prof Ben Groom explains how the financial sector largely fails to consider the economic and financial risks posed by biodiversity loss.
The Economics of Biodiversity coordination meeting brought together all research teams funded under the Biodiversity Economics programme by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
St. John's College Cambridge, UK
2025/09/01: 26th BIOECON Conference
This conference will bring together researchers and policymakers working at the interface of economic development, conservation, and environmental policy
Are the joint objectives of restoring nature and boosting economic growth incompatible?
More robust ways of measuring the impact of carbon credits can restore trust in offsetting schemes
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2025/06/01: New research finds pangolins in Africa hunted for food rather than illicit scales trade
One of the world’s most endangered mammals is being hunted in West Africa for the quality of its bushmeat and not the value of its scales to illegal Asian markets.
Pr. Groom was one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee for the annual EAERE conference
Professor Ben Groom and team are recognised with Frontiers Planet Prize honour
Loris André will discuss his co-authored paper with Ben Groom and Frank Venmans on the cost of a statistical species at the Student Conference on Conservation Science.
Paris
2025/03/25: Conference on Benefit-Cost Analysis: Distributional Issues and International Experience
Conference on Benefit-Cost Analysis: Distributional Issues and International Experience organised by Scientific Council for Cost-Benefit Analysis at France Stratégie.
Bogotá
2025/03/16: Congress of the Latin American Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Prof Ben Groom: Keynote Speaker at LAERE Congress 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia
Ben Groom is a member of the scientific committee for the ENVECON conference, and presented his work on biodiversity metrics at the 2024 conference at the Royal Society. The DC chair also provided sponsorship.
Environment and Resource Economics Seminar by Prof Ben Groom at University of Oxford
Webinar
2025/02/20: Nature positive impacts in business organisations: measuring and valuing biodiversity
Prof Ben Groom will give a webinar as part of the Deloitte Climate & Sustainability Competency Lab 2025
"Natural Capital" workshop organised by Paris School of Economics
Annecy-le-Vieux
2025/01/21: EAERE Winter School
The 2025 EAERE Winter School will address the topic Biodiversity in the new climate and will take place from 19 to 24 January 2025 in Annecy-le-Vieux, close to Annecy, France.
Exeter/Online
2025-2026: LEEP Seminar Series
The LEEP Seminar Series brings together scholars from around the world to share their research in environmental, resource and energy economics on a friendly and collaborative platform.
Birmingham
2024/12/05: Cross-country risk quantification of extreme wildfires in Mediterranean Europe
Dr Sarah Meier to present as part of the 'Quantitative Methods for Finance' seminar series at the University of Birmingham
Washington DC
2024/12/02: The Economics of Sustainable Development
Prof Ben Groom to present at World Bank conference in Washington DC
The University of Exeter in partnership with ISPONRE, the British Embassy Hanoi and Dragon Capital, explored how finance and public policy can be harnessed to mitigate biodiversity loss and foster Vietnam’s green economy.
Prof Ben Groom to present on 'Lessons From Climate Change Models: What Can Health Economists Learn From Environmental Economists’ Modeling Methodologies?'
Ben Groom to talk to the DEFRA team about social discounting and cost benefit analysis.
Kings College Cambridge, UK
2024/09/04: 25th BIOECON Conference: Biodiversity, Finance and Economy
The 25th BIOECON conference was held at Kings College Cambridge between the 4th and 6th of September. The conference celebrated 25 years of conferences on biodiversity economics and conservation since the birth of the BIOECON network from an EU funded…
Sarah Meier was brought on board to offer her economic expertise, building on her previous work in this area.
An engaging discussion on how to incorporate nature into our decision-making processes. Ben Groom will be one of several experts explaining practical ways to ensure that the environment is a key consideration in all our choices.
Dragon affiliate receives award for research contribution.
EAERE is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 edition of the EAERE Award for Best Doctoral Dissertations in Environmental and Resource Economics.
Professor Ben Groom spoke about biodiversity credits and metrics for biodiversity in finance.
This Summer School covers recent theories and empirical approaches of discounting future benefits and costs, with a special focus on uncertainties surrounding environmental outcomes.
Ben Groom presented on the Phase I and Phase II BIOESG projects at the CGFI Annual Forum
Location: Washington, DC
2024/05/23: NBER’s 6th annual Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy conference
Ben Groom will be presenting a paper titled 'The Social Value of Temporary Carbon Removals and Delayed Emissions'.
Location: Washington, DC
2024/05/23: Lisbon Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation
Sarah Meier is an invited speaker at the Lisbon Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation
Location: Online
2024/04/25: Society for Benefit Cost Analysis Workshop
Ben Groom presented on Social Discounting, with a focus on how to discount in the presence of inequality and environmental change.
Location: Washington, DC
2024/04/22: Resources for the Future workshop
Intersecting Externalities: Climate Change, Natural Capital, and Human Well-Being.
Location: Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2024/04/01: Research visit to Bolivia
A BIOADD research team trip to Bolivia, to meet with the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) colleagues and partners on the ground.
Location: Hamburg
2024/03/25: Climate and ESG Legal Risk Management Summit 2024
Professor Ben Groom is an invited speaker at Climate and ESG Legal Management Summit 2024.
Ben Groom is a member of the scientific committee for the ENVECON conference, and presented in work on biodiversity metrics a the 2024 conference at the Royal Society. The DC chair also provided sponsorship.
Making biodiversity renewal a key consideration in the financial system is the subject of a research programme that has received a further £3 million to launch a new network and hub.
Location: Oxford
2024/02/26: Oxford Smith School seminar
The economics of nature based solutions to climate change, Ben Groom invited speaker, hosted by the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Ben Groom invited speaker.
Location: Hamburg
2024/02/18: Study trip to Hamburg University
Meeting with affiliates to discuss social discounting: Moritz Drupp, Mark Freeman and Frikk Nesje.
Location: Nottingham
2024/01/29: NERC Economics of Biodiversity and Nature Positive Finance coordination meetings
With attendance from Ben Groom, Ben Balmford and Chunying Guo.
Location: Frankfurt
2024/01/26: UK-Germany Seminar on Sustainable Finance
Organised by British Embassy in Berlin at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE at Goethe University Frankfurt, with Ben Groom as a panellist.
Location: Online
2024/01/05: American Economic Association Annual Meeting
The AEA, in conjunction with 64 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), holds a three-day meeting each January to present papers on general economics topics.
A new way to price carbon credits could encourage investment in forest preservation and boost progress towards net zero.
The University of Exeter has signalled its commitment to promoting academic research on sustainable finance and investment by joining GRASFI, a global research alliance.
The workshop aims to foster a deeper understanding of the importance of biodiversity and to generate important insights for policymakers, businesses, NGOs and other stakeholders on how to better account for biodiversity in their decision-making processes. Included a presentation from…
To promote and improve the theory and application of the tools of benefit-cost analysis, that is, to have both a research and policy focus and to provide a forum for scientific exchange.
Devoted to economics as an observational science, using controlled experiments to learn about economic behaviour. The ESA welcomes participation by economists interested in the results of such experiments, as well as scholars in psychology, business, political science, and other related…
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2023/09/06: 24th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation
GCET is the leading global forum for exchanges on the principles and practices of environmental taxation and other market-based instruments designed to protect the environment and foster sustainability.
Ben Groom is the co-chair of the BIOECON network along with Andreas Kontoleon (Cambridge) and Martin Quaas (Leipzig) . BIOECON covers a broad range of topics within the umbrella of biodiversity economics and the sustainable development goals, including: marine and…
A new way to price carbon credits could encourage investment in forest preservation and boost progress towards net zero.
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2023/06/27: 28th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
An invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics in environmental and resource economics. With approximately 700 individual participants attending from all over the world, international researchers scholars, economists and students convene to the EAERE Annual Conferences in the…
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2023/05/01: Philosophy aligns with economics on how to value future generations in climate policy
A survey of philosophers finds they broadly agree with economists on the best way of valuing the environment of the future in policy decisions made now – although for different reasons.
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2023/04/04: OECD-INSPIRE workshop: Assessing biodiversity-related risks, impacts and dependencies in the financial sector
To facilitate knowledge sharing and discussions on the crucial issue of assessing biodiversity-related risks for the financial sector.
University of Exeter, UK
2022/09/04: 23rd BIOECON Conference: Biodiversity, Finance and Economy
BIOECON XXIII was of interest to both researchers and policymakers working on issues associated with finance and economics and their impact on biodiversity. It covered a broad range of topics within the umbrella of biodiversity economics and finance including: the…
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2022/06/29: 27th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
An invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics in environmental and resource economics. With approximately 700 individual participants attending from all over the world, international researchers scholars, economists and students convene to the EAERE Annual Conferences in the…
There is a strong scientific consensus among economists to recommend applying the polluter pays principle on CO2 emissions, without exemption. On the other hand, there is no consensus on the level of carbon price to impose to align the interests of…
AERE was founded in 1979 as a means for exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in environmental and resource economics. AERE currently has over 1,000 members from more than thirty nations, coming from academic institutions, the public sector,…
An eight-year effort by Indonesia to protect its remaining forests contributed just 4% of its emissions reduction target, yet still yielded carbon savings worth far more than it was paid under a deal with Norway.
SWELL is an online academic seminar series for everyone interested in water economics, organized by Erik Ansink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Roy Brouwer (University of Waterloo).
Collaborating to maximise the use of nature-based solutions. What have we learnt and what can we do to facilitate a sustainable future ensuring costs and benefits for industry and society are understood?
BIOECON covers a broad range of topics within the umbrella of biodiversity economics and the sustainable development goals, including: marine and ocean economics, the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in economic development, plant genetic resources and food security issues,…
