International Guests Discuss Energy Transition and Climate Change

On 16 and 17 May 2022, around 80 energy and environmental economists from Germany and abroad participated in the tenth Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment at ZEW Mannheim. For two days, international researchers discussed various topics of energy, climate and environmental economics. This year, the conference focused on energy efficiency, electricity markets, behavioural economic instruments and CO₂ pricing.

Professor Sebastian Rausch, head of ZEW’s Research Department “Environmental and Climate Economics”, opened the conference. With Professor Lucas Bretschger from ETH Zurich, Professor Paul Ferraro from Johns Hopkins University, Professor Arthur van Benthem from the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Erica Myers from the University of Calgary, ZEW was once again able to welcome renowned international environmental economists as keynote speakers. Their lectures dealt, among other things, with questions of economic development against the background of rising CO₂ prices and possible behavioural economic approaches for designing climate policy measures. In addition, the speakers presented both new research findings and still unresolved issues in the transport and buildings sectors. In particular, the focus was on emission standards, the promotion of e-mobility as well as the cost-efficient renovation of buildings.