Towards A Just Policy
The global average temperature is on track to increase over 2026. A single glance at who can afford to own and run air conditioning shows how unevenly climate change affects the poorest households. Is it possible to address the inequality through good design of climate change policy? “For a given global emissions reduction goal, the most efficient policy may not be the most equitable,” said Stéphane Zuber, Director of Research at CNRS, Paris School of Economics. He was presenting a webinar on April 16, 2026, as part of the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics (VSCE), a series organized by the […]
The Right to Pollute?
Who owns the environment? Who has the right to pollute the environment? Climate policy is essentially a negotiation over who owns the environment and the allocation of economic, technological, and developmental costs and benefits among nations. Yet, how should we determine the fairness of this distribution? The economic analysis of climate change is a broad and growing area. “A central debate in international climate policy is the distributional consideration,” said Simon Lang, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sustainability Economics Group at ETH Zurich. He was presenting a webinar on April 2, 2026, as part of the Virtual Seminar on Climate […]