Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
A research-focused podcast on the economics of climate change and air pollution. Episodes are released every two weeks on Tuesday at 6 am CET. Episodes will be either expert interviews or solo explorations of key issues. Hosted by Dr. Arvid Viaene, a climate economist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has done research on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and mortality. His research on climate-related mortality has been published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and he has advised the European Commission on the impacts of climate policy on firm competitiveness.
Podcasting since 2025 • 21 episodes
Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
Latest Episodes
#21 Dr. Richard Tol on FUND, Climate Damages and Why Adaptation Matters
In this episode, I speak with Richard Tol about the origins of the FUND integrated assessment model and why its structure matters for climate economics.We start with the basic question: what is an integrated assessment model actually for...
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#20 Dr. Matthias Rodemeier - Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Evidence from 250.000 Consumers
Voluntary carbon offsets are often discussed on the supply side—quality, additionality, adverse selection. In this episode, we go to the demand side: what do people actually pay for carbon mitigation when it shows up as a real...
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#19 Pauline Miquel - The Surprising Complexity of Implementing CBAM: Monitoring, Verification, and Real Costs
CBAM is simple conceptually, but very hard to put into practice. Turning CBAM into a working system requires something the EU doesn’t naturally have for global supply chains: credible, product-level emissions data, verified across jurisd...
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#18 Kimberly Clausing - The Global Effects of CBAM: Quantifying Benefits, Costs, and Leakage
Climate policy faces a built-in incentive problem: countries bear the costs of domestic regulation, while the benefits of lower CO₂ are shared globally. One proposed solution is a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) — charging impo...
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#17 Beatriz Granziera - Carbon Offsets and Paris Article 6: The History, Recent Developments and Possible Future
International carbon credits are back in the policy conversation—especially after the EU’s new 2040 proposal reopened the question of whether (and how) Paris Agreement Article 6 credits might play a role.But “offsets” are a loaded...
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