Early results from an upcoming working paper on autonomous battery trucks. Key message: in terms of battery competitiveness with diesel for long-haul heavy trucks, autonomy is roughly equivalent to a battery pack price reduction of AUS$50/kWh. www.linkedin.com/pulse/slow-s...

New research paper on how long-distance container shipping can be electrified (and hence decarbonised) in Research in Transportation Economics. #ClimateEconomics #ClimatePolicy #Decarbonisation #Shipping @cleanshipping.bsky.social @csiropublishing.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lkeQ2eEmT...

New opinion piece with Robert Speight on the long-term global decarbonisation potential of Synthetic Biology. Not open access but a preprint is avalable from my website. #ClimateEconomics #ClimatePolicy #Decarbonisation @csiropublishing.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How might new vehicle technologies reduce personal aviation demand and emissions? Looking forward to presenting online tomorrow with ITLS ... www.linkedin.com/events/semin...

Working paper on reduced personal air travel due to electrified, autonomous personal vehicles/robotaxis. The model is based on Australian travel data and illustrates potential long-run effects eg decarbonisation/contrails. #econ #energy #transport #autonomy crawford.anu.edu.au/cama/content...

Seeking input from technical shipping/electrical experts on the challenges and potential solutions to powering large ships (eg container) using separate battery vessels en route. There are economic advantages to separating batteries from the ship - a new paper considers this "off-ship" approach ...

Seeking input from technical shipping/electrical experts on the challenges and potential solutions to powering large ships (eg container) using separate battery vessels en route. There are economic advantages to separating batteries from the ship - a new paper considers this "off-ship" approach ...

New open access article on 'Clean innovation, heterogeneous financing costs, and the optimal climate policy mix'. With Emanuele Campiglio and Alessandro Spiganti. @jeem-econ.bsky.social #econsky doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Vacancy for PhD candidate on climate risks and individual behaviour workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

#Environment impacts of producing animal-based #proteins are substantial. Over 3/4 of agricultural #landuse & 2/3 of agricultural GHG #emissions are linked to such foods. Alternative #protein sources offer opportunities for #foodsecurity & sustainability: www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Up next was the 🏅 2023 Best @jaereaere.bsky.social Paper Award 🏅, which was awarded to: Fabian Stöckl and Alexander Zerrahn for “Substituting Clean for Dirty Energy: A Bottom-Up Analysis” Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

#JobOpportunity @pik-potsdam.bsky.social: We are looking for a postdoc or research analyst working with us on energy systems modeling of decarbonization pathways for the transport system 0cn.de/PIKtransport....

Join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 3-year PhD position in philosophy of science, deadline 28.06.2024. For details see the official job ad: tinyurl.com/24rwtdsy #philsci #philsky #philosophy #histsci #philtech #hpsbio

Postdoc position available at BU Questrom in Business Economics and Analytics! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27668

I'm excited to present some new work on learning, catastrophic risks, and climate change at the @nberpubs Energy and Environmental Policy conference this Thursday. Looks like a great set of policy-relevant papers - check them all out here: nber.org/conferences/...

Among US workers who can work from home, only 24 per cent do so rarely or never. 33 per cent never go to the office. This looks like a new equilibrium. (Image is an office with many cubicles, only one of which is occupied) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

What should the relative prices of carbon dioxide and methane be? My new paper investigates their social costs under both deterministic (predictable) damages from global warming and uncertain tipping events. doi.org/10.1007/s106... Thread: bsky.app/profile/twis...

2/7 Current IPCC policy weighs these emissions using their global warming potential over 100 years (GWP100). But some argue for a 20-year period (GWP20), which would roughly triple the methane weight (the price of methane relative to carbon dioxide).

1/7 What should the relative prices of carbon dioxide and methane be? My new paper investigates their social costs under both deterministic (predictable) damages from global warming and uncertain tipping events. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-024-00864-z

Exciting announcement from the U.S. Dept of Energy: $6 billion for industrial decarbonization demonstration projects, across many key industries like steel, cement, aluminum, paper and... snacks 🔌💡: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

How does a carbon (dirty production) tax compare against clean research and production subsidies? I use a three-sector (services, clean and dirty) IAM model with endogenous technology. Optimal policy uses a carbon tax and a clean research subsidy... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dirty taxes are better than clean subsidies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... energysky greensky

CSIRO is hiring a postdoc to research the economics of bioengineering. Open to Australian/New Zealand citizens, broad disciplines eg economists, mathematicians, engineers. Brisbane or Canberra. Closes 11 March.

Published in #EnergyEconomics the first Australian study to assess how long it takes to get #Renewable projects planned, approved, built, and commissioned. #Australia has had a notable improvement in lead-times for onshore #wind & #solar Now at 53 & 41 months Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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NEW IEA ANALYSIS: Momentum behind clean energy transitions is now sufficient for global demand for coal, oil & natural gas to peak before 2030. This is based on current policies. With more ambitious policies peak could be brought forward & subsequent decline could be steeper.

Hi all. Looking to connect with economics research. My interests include climate change (policies, financing, transition), energy and synthetic biology. Live in Brisbane, Australia.