Economics Events
Lecture: Watershed Protection Financing
Local governments and water utilities in the Triangle have made significant investments, from a variety of funding sources, in watershed protection in both the Upper Neuse and Upper Cape Fear River Basins in recent years.
Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2012
Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) is an opportunity to examine the role of the ocean in shaping the nation.
Duke University Symposium on Water and Cities
The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology at Duke University, will hold a symposium May 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Fitzpatrick Center.
From the Ground Up: Building Environmental Markets Without Federal Regulatory Drivers
The event will focus on transferable lessons from the success of water quality trading programs, relative to other ecosystem service markets, in the absence of federal regulatory drivers.
Providing Environmental Services from Agriculture
The economic nuts and bolts of providing environmental payments to farmers, ranchers and other rural landowners are the subject of a conference to be April 17 and 18. The conference is organized by USDA Economic Research Service, in collaboration with Farm Foundation, NFP and Resources for the Future.
Conference: Navigating the American Carbon World
2012 will be a momentous year. The world will be watching California as it launches its cap-and-trade program, which will be the first economy-wide program in the U.S. and the second largest carbon market in the world.
World Oceans Summit
Linwood Pendleton, director of ocean and coastal policy at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, is among the speakers at the World Oceans Summit in Capella, Singapore.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Ecosystem Services Seminar Series
Lydia Olander, Ecosystem Services Program Director at the Nicholas Institute, will speak at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Ecosystem Services Seminar Series October 6.
Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference
The Nicholas Institute's Bill Holman and Lydia Olander will present at the Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin October 3.
Linwood Pendleton - The Economic Value of Ecosystem Services
Linwood Pendleton, director of ocean and coastal policy at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will present on "The Economic Value of Ecosystem Services" at the Coastal Zone 2011 Conference in Chicago, IL.
Brian Murray & Linwood Pendleton - Economics of Blue Carbon
Brian Murray and Linwood Pendleton present on the economics of blue carbon at the first meeting of the International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group hosted by Conservation International in Washington, DC.
Combining Cap and Trade with Offsets
Brian Murray and Jan Mazurek present at this workshop at Paris-Dauphine University organized by the Climate Economics Chair. The workshop seeks to investigate the issues surrounding the coupling of cap and trade systems with project offset mechanisms to achieve required emissions reductions targets, safeguarding cost-efficiency without compromising effectiveness.
Daniel Perkins - Bayesian network decision support tool
Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a presentation of a Bayesian network decision support tool by Dr. Daniel Perkins, Syngenta.
Brian Murray Presents at CARB's Public Workshop on REDD
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Model Uncertainty and Policy Making
Denny Ellerman, Frank Convery and Christian de Perthuis, Pricing Carbon: The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Emissions Trading Scheme: For more information on the book, Pricing Carbon http://www.amazon.com/Pricing-Carbon-European-Emissions-Trading/dp/0521196477
Robert Conrad, The Elusive Search for the Natural Resource Curse
Costs and Benefits of Climate and Energy Policy for Agriculture and Forestry
Forum on the Costs and Benefits of Climate and Energy Policy for Agriculture and Forestry
Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy
Strategies for Energy-Intensive Firms and Their Investors
Sasha Golub, Climate Policy and Economics
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