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.
Episodes
8 episodes
#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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#7 - Dr. Kaushik Deb - The Power of Cap-and-Trade Markets in Emerging Economies: Evidence from India
Find the clean transcripts on my Substack: https://substack.com/@climateeconomicswitharvidCould market forces be the key to solving one of the world's most pressing public hea...
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#6 - From $0 to $190: How U.S. Presidents Price a Ton of CO₂
Pricing carbon is the backbone of climate cost-benefit analysis in the U.S. If the price is high, stronger environmental rules pay for themselves; if it’s low, they don’t. In this episode, I trace how the social cost of carbon entered federal p...
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#5 How Much Damage Are We Doing? Emissions, Carbon, and the Costs of Climate Change
A plain-English tour of how economists put a price on climate harm—the Social Cost of Carbon—and a quick way to estimate damages with just a few numbers. We start from 2023 anchors (≈4.7 tCO₂ per person; ≈38 GtCO₂ worldwide), explai...
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#4 Dr. Ben Probst - Can We Trust Carbon Offsets? Evidence from 1 Billion Credits
Carbon credit offsets sound great in theory. But how well do they actually work in practice? In this new episode of my podcast, I talk with Dr. Benedict Probst about one of the largest reviews ever done ...
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#3 Dr. Christa Hasenkopf - Air Pollution: The Leading Health Threat - And How to Tackle It
Air pollution is responsible for shortening global life expectancy by more than two years—making it the world’s leading threat to human health, ahead of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and even smoking. Yet it receives only a fraction of the funding ...
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#2 Dr. Ishan Nath - Trade and Adaptation in Agriculture in the Global South – Barriers and Opportunities
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Ishan Nath, assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, about his research on climate change, agriculture, and trade. His forthcoming paper in the Journal of Political Economy explores ho...
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#1 Dr. Koen Deconinck - Measuring Farm Emissions: The Fast, the Furious, and the Fixable
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Koen Deconinck, economist and policy analyst at the OECD, to explore a deeply technical but increasingly important piece of the climate puzzle: how we measure greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sec...
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