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.
Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
Latest Episodes
#30 Dr. Adam Brzezinski –How Narratives Shape EU Climate Policy: Trade-offs, Voters, and the Politics of the Green Deal
In this episode, I speak with Adam Brzezinski about his paper on narrative entanglement and what it reveals about climate politics.We discuss why politicians often bundle together very different claims when talking about climate p...
#29: Dr. Joseph Shapiro – The $800 billion Implicit Subsidy for Dirty Industries Due to Trade Policy
Sometimes you hear: “we should stop subsidizing dirty industries.” But are we actually doing that—and how big is it?In this episode, I’m joined (again) by Professor Joe Shapiro (UC Berkeley) to discuss his paper “The Environmen...
#28: Dr. Lily Hsueh - Corporations at Climate Crossroads: What Drives Real Emissions Cuts
A lot of climate economics focuses on carbon pricing and carbon markets. But what happens when firms don’t face an explicit cap on emissions? Why do some companies make real operational changes, while others focus on pledges and disclosu...
# 27 Jos Cozijnsen - The EU ETS Is Here to Stay: The MSR Debate, Price Controls, and the 2040 Package
The EU ETS is up for review again in 2026, but the debate is noisy: volatile permit prices, politically sensitive energy costs, and lots of claims about whether the system is being “weakened” or “strengthened.” If you listened to th...
#26 Dr. Edwin Woerdman - The EU ETS in 2026: MSR, Economic (In-)Efficiencies and What Might Change
This is Part 2 of my conversation with Professor Edwin Woerdman on the EU ETS. In Part 1, we covered the core mechanics of cap-and-trade—and why “2039” is an arithmetic consequence of the linear reduction factor. In Pa...
