Panel on "The Political Economy of Climate Change: Why interventionism and
symbolic politics outplay carbon pricing"
There is a broad consensus among climate economists that carbon pricing should be the main instrument to combat climate change. However, energy and climate policies in Germany are in many cases still highly interventionist and often tend to resort to symbolic measures. The panel discussion aims at analysing why economically efficient instruments like carbon pricing face such a hard time when it comes to political implementation, what the chances are for a more rational climate policy, and what role economics and economists can play.
Panel discussion:
• Ottmar Edenhofer (Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research)
• Christian Flachsland (Hertie School Berlin)
• Veronika Grimm (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg and (Friedrich
Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, German Council of Economic
Experts)
• Tanja Wielgoß (Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG)
Moderation:
Patrick Bernau (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung)