School Topic

EAERE-​ETH European Winter School on
Climate Policies, Innovation, and International Competitiveness

The fifth EAERE-​ETH Winter School will take place from January 29 to February 3, 2023 at Monte Verità in Ascona, Switzerland. 

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has recently received a lot of attention as the EU is trying to implement it. Rationale for CBAM first stands in competitiveness differentials generated by environmental policies. Second, it could provide incentives for other countries to join the club implementing environmental policies and imposing CBA. However, competitiveness also depends on technological progress. The latter is largely endogenous and affected by environmental policies and CBAM, whether CBAM is imposed by countries in which the firm exports or by the firm’s home country, as a protection against loss of competitiveness. Understanding these issues requires an expertise in both endogenous technological progress in a context of climate change and in taxation issues with the recent developments on CBAM. This Winterschool aims at providing the students with such an expertise.

In the next decades, economies will necessarily have to adjust climate change through both mitigation and adaptation efforts. The interplay of public policies and technological progress, with CBAM being one key example of this interplay, is going to be one main driver for this adjustment. Hence this Winter school aims at providing the students with:

• theoretical expertise on public policy incentivized technological progress
  
• an application to CBAM, that is a global and very recent topic that will be tackle both analytically and theoretically

Students planning a research career in environmental economics should be comfortable with the issues of endogenous technological progress and public policies. Having been selected for and having attended a Winterschool oriented on these topics with an application to the very recent issue of CBAM will be a valuable asset for them.