EAERE Conference 2025
Alongside EAERE president elect Pr. Linda Nøstbakken (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Dr. Nicole Wagner (Department of Economics, University of Oslo), Pr. Groom was one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee for the annual conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, held in Bergen, June 16-19 2025. The committee received over 1600 submissions and the eventual conference programme contained nearly 800 presentations. As well as arranging for reviews of all submissions and creating the programme, the Scientific Committee was also charged with inviting three keynote speakers.
On Day 1, Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE) presented his groups work on the role of subsidies in promoting renewable energy R&D and proliferation in China and beyond, followed by some oversight on the changing nature of the voluntary carbon market in light of the upcoming COP 30 meeting and the ensuing discussions of Article 6.4.
On Day 2, Pr. Tatyana Deryugina (Illinois Urbana Champaign) presented an insightful guide to the economic analysis of natural disasters, focussing specifically on spatial and temporal data issues, how to overcome them, and the pitfalls of estimating causal, long-run welfare effects of severe shocks.
On Day 3, Pr Catherine Wolfram (MIT) provided some optimism in the face of waning interest in climate policy in the US. Cap and trade emissions markets coupled with Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM) can provide the coordinating mechanism for international action on climate change, she argued. This point was made with clear empirical studies of he incentives facing those inside and outside of the CBAM zone provided the evidence for these claims.
Beyond these contributions the Dragon Capital Team and LEEP were well represented. LEEP had a special session on land use optimisation and the role of AI and emulation to facilitate workable tools for decision-making. Pr. Groom sat on an OECD organised thematic session, where he presented the work associated with the NERC funded BIOADD project. Drs. Ben Balmford, Sarah Meier, Ville Inkinen and Lorenzo Sileci all presented their work associated with the Dragon Capital Chair.
Special mention should go to Daniele Rinaldo who won the best paper prize in the Association Journal: Environment and Resource Economics (see picture below).
