Energy and Climate Finance

Elizabeth Zelljadt, Ecologic Institute
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Energy and Climate Finance

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Date
spring term 2014
Location
Washington, DC, United States
Lecture
Elizabeth Zelljadt

The course Energy and Climate Finance introduces students to environmental markets and the policies that create them, focusing mainly on emissions trading systems (ETS) to mitigate climate change. The course also provides an introduction to attributes of the financial sector through its analysis of markets for environmental commodities. Ecologic Fellow Elizabeth Zelljadt has taught this course in spring 2014.

Students learn the economic theory behind market-based environmental policy instruments such as tradable renewable energy credits, carbon offsets, and water rights in a semester of lectures featuring presentations from practitioners including state and federal government, private companies subject to market-based emissions regulation, commodity brokers and representatives from international institutions.

The next session of this course will be offered in spring 2016.

Event
Masterstudiengang Energy Policy and Climate
Organizer
Lecture
Elizabeth Zelljadt
Date
spring term 2014
Location
Washington, DC, United States
Language
English
Keywords
carbon management, finance, Master of Science in Energy Policy and Climate, EPC, environmental markets, policies, emissions trading system, ETS, climate change mitigation, financial sector, environmental commodities, economic theory, market-based environmental policy instruments, tradable renewable energy credits, REC, carbon offsets, water rights, practitioners, state and federal government, private companies, commodity brokers, international institutions, World Bank, course, core course, analysis of markets
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Course Description Energy and Climate Finance
PublicationReportMarket-based Mechanisms in a Post-2012 Climate Change Regime
 
In the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Parties are discussing new market mechanisms that expand the concept of crediting emission reduction efforts with tradable units beyond the existing Clean... Read more

Paula Castro, Matthias Duwe, Michel Köhler, Elizabeth Zelljadt 2012: Market-based mechanisms in a post 2012 climate change regime. Ecologic Institute, University of Zurich - Institute of Political Science and Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), Perspectives GmbH, Berlin.

PublicationReportAssessment of Climate Change Policies in the Context of the European Semester - 2014
 
This collection of country reports assesses climate and energy policies in all 28 Members States of the European Union (EU). The reports were jointly produced by Ecologic Institute and eclareon to support the Directorate General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) of the... Read more

Velten, Eike et al. 2014: Assessment of Climate Change Policies in the Context of the European Semester. 28 Country Reports. Berlin.

PublicationReportAssessment of Climate Change Policies in the Context of the European Semester – 2013
 
28 Länderstudien
This collection of country reports assesses climate and energy policies in all 28 Members States of the European Union (EU). The reports were jointly produced by Ecologic Institute and eclareon to support the Directorate General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) of the... Read more

Dreblow, Eike et al. 2013: Assessment of Climate Change Policies in the Context of the European Semester. 28 Country Reports. Berlin.

ProjectFP 7Mobilizing and Transferring Knowledge on post-2012 Climate Policy Implications (POLIMP)
 
How can climate policies be designed, what impacts do they have and what other options are there? These are important questions to stakeholders and policy-makers. The project POLIMP aims at making answers to these issues more easily accessible and understandable. To... Read more

Mobilizing and Transferring Knowledge on post-2012 Climate Policy Implications (POLIMP)

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ProjectAssessment of Climate Change Policies in the Context of the European Semester
 
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Climate and energy targets form a key part of the European 2020 growth strategy. Ecologic Institute assesses national climate and energy policies of EU Members States with respect to these targets and compares the progress of Member States in relevant policy areas to... Read more

Assessment of Climate Change Policies in the Context of the European Semester

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ProjectNew Market Mechanisms in a Post-2012 Climate Regime
 
Quelle: Perspectives analysis; UNEP Risoe 2012
This project is about assisting the UBA with understanding the political, strategic and practical issues relating to the negotiations around emerging or "more advanced" developing economies taking on new market mechanisms in a post 2012 climate regime. The three main... Read more

New Market Mechanisms in a Post-2012 Climate Regime

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ProjectFP 7Combining Policy Instruments to Achieve Europe's 2050 Climate Targets (CECILIA2050)
 
A new Ecologic Institute led research project on EU climate policy, called "CECILIA2050" has taken off with an internal kick-off meeting, the website launch and a first public event at the climate summit in Doha, Qatar. The three-year project is to draft recommendations... Read more

Combining Policy Instruments to Achieve Europe's 2050 Climate Targets (CECILIA2050)

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ProjectETS Summer Universities for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries
 
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Ecologic Institute leads a multi-year project for the European Commission to design and implement outreach and capacity building activities on emissions trading for developing countries. Activities include ten Summer Universities and training courses carried out on... Read more

ETS Summer Universities for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

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