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 • 11 episodes
Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
Latest Episodes
#11 Dr. Jos Delbeke - The History of the EU ETS: Key Turning Points, Challenges and Policy Lessons
On paper, climate policy sounds simple: you put a price on carbon. Either you tax it, or you cap it and let firms trade. In practice, doing that for one of the world’s biggest economies — as the first mover — is anything but simple.This ...
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#10 - Best of Air Pollution Episodes - Impact, China's War on Pollution and India's innovative cap-and-trade approach - ft. Dr. Hasenkopf, Dr. Debb and Dr. Trimarchi
Air pollution isn’t just a climate co-benefit—it’s the number one threat to human health. In this best-of compilation, we revisit three standout conversations to trace the arc from global impacts to two of the world’s most important case...
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#9 - Marian Krüger - Carbon Capture: Technologies, Competitiveness, and the Importance of Demand-side Policy
Marion Kruger, co-founder of Remove, explains how carbon removal technologies are essential for achieving net zero targets by compensating for emissions that are impossible or extremely expensive to eliminate. Carbon removal is what puts the "n...
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#8 - Dr Lorenzo Trimarchi - How the 2018 U.S.– China Trade War Increased Air Pollution and CO2 Emissions in China
Did the 2018 US–China trade war make China’s air dirtier and increase its CO2 emissions? This question is not easy ex-ante. On the one hand you have a decrease in production which decreases emissions and pollution. On the other hand, there ...
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