Faculty fellow Billy Pizer will give the keynote address at the 2017 Chosunbiz Future Energy Forum in Seoul, South Korea, June 15. He will discuss how the changing global political and economic landscape can affect energy industries. The gathering will include global energy firms, government representatives, academics, and consultants.

Faculty fellow Billy Pizer will present “Equity versus Efficiency in Energy Regulation” (June 1, 3 p.m.) and serve as a panelist on the Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon panel (June 1, 11 a.m.) at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 6th Annual Summer Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 31–June 2.

When analyzing the impacts of various regulations, such as those aimed at vehicle and power plant emissions, government agencies use the social cost of carbon (SCC)—an estimate, in dollars, of the net damages incurred by society from a 1 metric ton increase in carbon dioxide emissions in a given year. At the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis conference in Washington, D.C., March 16, faculty fellow Billy Pizer will serve as a panelist for a discussion of approaches to updating that cost. He will present recommendations of a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for short- and long-term improvements to the SCC calculation.

Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, will present "Evaluating the Paris Agreement's Mitigation Pledges with Statistical Forecasting Models" 9-10:30 a.m. June 11 at the AERE 5th Annual Summer Conference.

Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, will present on "The Inequity of Pollution Taxes" 1:45-3:15 p.m. June 10 at the AERE 5th Annual Summer Conference.

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Faculty Fellow Billy Pizer will be among the panelists at a "Learning Session to Evaluate the RGGI Cost-Containment Reserve," April 29 in Boston. 

The event agenda is available online.

The Nicholas Institute's Brian Murray, Billy Pizer, and Martin Ross will be among the speakers on the panel "Equity and Models in Climate Policy: Looking Ahead," at the Climate Ethics and Economics Workshop March 4 at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. For more information, visit the event website. 

In Paris, world leaders signed an unprecedented climate agreement to limit temperature rise to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels by 2100. On February 1, Duke faculty and students who attended the climate change conference will reflect on the significance of the new climate accord, what we can expect from it, and how the Duke community was involved in the conversation.