This is great news. Finland to restore marshlands, which will (1) act as an natural barrier to deter a Russian invasion, (2) be a carbon sink to slow down climate change, (3) protect biodiversity. Superb!
BIOECON Conference #27
“Economics, Finance and Nature Based Risks”
Call for submissions is now available. The conference is at St John’s, Cambridge Uni, 6th-8th of Sept 2026.
www.bioecon-network.org/pages/27th_2...
Keynotes: Pr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State) and Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE)
Some light Sunday reading to fill that post-Olympic void:
"Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition" with Mark Freeman, @bengroom.bsky.social & @frikknesje.bsky.social
Updated working paper: gwagner.com/beliefs
TL;DR: both evidence & prior beliefs matter, a lot.
Deadline in 2 weeks: 27th Feb 2026.
HM Treasury Review of the Social Discount Rate: Survey.
See below for details and links.
@granthamlse.bsky.social , @leepinstitute.bsky.social
Spoiling a good story there mate.
Incredible.
RIP Sly Dunbar. Loved this collaboration: open.spotify.com/track/4QHfFz...
Hooray!
🧰 Resources for PhD students and young researchers
The past few days, I have been collecting useful resources that might help younger researchers:
- academic writing advice
- data-management warnings
- econometric tools and methods
- and a few other things
sites.google.com/view/philipp...
Yes, EU CBAM pushing Indian steel producers toward greener production processes.
I only wish people would stop referring to #CBAM as a tariff. Tariffs treat foreign and domestic producers differently, while a CBAM levels the playing field. More like a VAT.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...
Atomistically post-modern.
UK HM Treasury discount rate review. See link below. We’d like responses before 27th Feb. See below. @rff.org @granthamlse.bsky.social @leepinstitute.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social
HM Treasury is requesting input into its Green Book Discount Rate Review, and we need your help.
If you have an interest in Social Discounting, please complete the following survey: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
2) Forward this link to interested parties.
Deadline: Feb 27th
When you come to London look me up. Plenty of gyms. Real rock not far away.
Also. Remind me. Subsidies to FF? That’s a thing right?
Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were
Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.
Loved the book btw.
Researchers including Professor @bengroom.bsky.social are working to restore trust in carbon offsetting by demonstrating the more robust ways their impact can be measured. @leepinstitute.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Many thanks to an amazing team of wonderful co-authors:
S. Chabé-Ferret @tse-fr.eu
A. Creti @univdauphine.bsky.social
K. Duffy
M. Elias @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
A. Guizar Coutiño @ox.ac.uk
B. Filewod
@bengroom.bsky.social
A. Kontoleon
G. Le Velly
T. L'Horty
A. Missirian
T. A. P. West
One last view over Bergen following a nice #EAERE2025 conference.
Always happy to meet friends and colleagues I seldom have the occasion to cross paths with.
Including
@profejzrobinson.bsky.social
@bengroom.bsky.social
@elchinosauro.bsky.social
And many others
@eaere.bsky.social
"If “two-weeks” means what it normally means, and as it has regularly meant for Ukraine, then the US is almost certainly going to stay out of the war."
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?”
My new blog post covers the answer.
#EconSky
Hi Rob. A lot to say here. In short. UK ONS has natural capital accounts. The UN SEEA also. Some are just physical, others in monetary terms. The US Biden admin had a structure in place which has not yet been torn up, and may not be since it focusses on minerals, oil, forests and fish. Progress
Our latest working paper provides new insights into the economic value of the Congo Basin forests and how the supply of this value is distributed across categories of rightsholders, thereby linking values to the different groups who make management decisions about the forest. www.lse.ac.uk/granth...
I ll present on Tuesday at 2 pm in the session “Forests, land use, and economic development”
BIOECON 2025 REGISTRATION is open! sites.google.com/view/26th-bi.... St Johns College Cambridge, 31st Aug - 2nd Sept.
Listening to PM on BBC R4 today you would think that the Treasury Green Book is the source of all problems concerning levelling up, regional disparities of government investment and inequality writ large. The Green Book handles value for money. Not the lack of strategy by successive governments.
@moritzdrupp.bsky.social, my supervisor Martin Hänsel and co-authors incl. @bengroom.bsky.social @climatefran.bsky.social @frikknesje.bsky.social @ctraeger.bsky.social were recognized with the Frontiers Planet Prize for planetary health with a paper on the increasing value of nature
