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Lecture Kleinman Center Event

Can Europe Plug Its Carbon Leaks with Tariffs?

Thursday, April 4, 2024 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Event Details

Speaker

  • Stefan Ambec INRAE Research Professor, Toulouse School of Economics

Moderator

  • Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Professor of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences

Location

Energy Forum at the Kleinman Center
220 S. 34th St.
Fisher Fine Arts Building, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Visiting Scholar Stefan Ambec of the Toulouse School of Economics will review the challenges in the design of the EU's CBAM.

Event Summary

On the path to achieving carbon neutrality, the European Union (EU) has recently adopted a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to address carbon leakage from international trade. Visiting Scholar Stefan Ambec of the Toulouse School of Economics will review the challenges in the design of the EU’s CBAM and discuss its impact on competitiveness, trade, carbon pricing, carbon emissions, and well-being.

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Can Europe Plug Its Carbon Leaks with the CBAM?
Stefan Ambec

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speaker

Stefan Ambec

INRAE Research Professor, Toulouse School of Economics

Stefan Ambec is INRAE Research Professor at Toulouse School of Economics where he leads the TSE Energy and Climate Center. Ambec is a 2023-2024 Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar.

moderator

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is the Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets at Penn.