Join us at Professor Mark Jaccard’s talk about climate policy options for the reduction of greenhouse gasses.
Monday, Jan. 29
Noon – 1:30 pm
UBC Asian Centre – Auditorium, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, B.C V6T 1Z2. (Note: This is a new venue to accommodate more seating.
Light lunch offered. This talk is now sold out. Please contact us to be added to the wait list lindsay.marsh@ubc.ca
Watch a recording of the talk here.
Synopsis: Explicit carbon pricing policies (carbon tax, cap-and-trade) are frequently described as the optimal way to achieve GHG reduction targets. But real-world evidence suggests that politicians who are serious about accelerating GHG reduction also employ implicit carbon pricing (command-and-control regulations, flexible regulations). This talk combines evidence from real-world climate policy experiences, political science research on public support for difference types of policies, and economic analysis of comparative climate policy cost-effectiveness to evaluate our climate policy options for accelerating GHG reduction. Evidence is primarily drawn from experiences and research in Canada and California.
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About Mark Jaccard: (on Twitter @MarkJaccard and blogging at markjaccard.com)
Mark has been professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, since 1986, with one interruption from 1992-97 while he served as Chair and CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission. His PhD is from the Energy Economics and Policy Institute at the University of Grenoble. Mark contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the 1990s and as an author on its 2011 Special Report on Renewables. He served for over a decade as an international expert with the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, including co-chairing the 2009 task force on sustainable use of coal, which reported directly to the Chinese premier. In the period 2007-2012, he served as convening lead author for sustainable energy policy with the Global Energy Assessment. With over 100 academic publications, he was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, largely for his career research into the design and application of energy-economy models to assess the effectiveness and cost of sustainable energy policies. He advises energy and environment policy makers around the world.
Co-sponsored by: The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).
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