For this year's renowned Erich Schneider Memorial Lecture, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel has invited Ottmar Edenhofer to speak. He will be painting the big picture, as the title of Edenhofer's lecture this Thursday shows: “Climate, War, and Science – Practical Dilemmas and Theoretical Challenges”.
Erich Schneider, who died in 1970, was one of Germany's most important economic thinkers. Edenhofer speaks as Ddirector of the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and as a professor at Technische Universität Berlin.
“Climate policy threatens autocracies,” this is one of Edenhofer's theses. “Since autocracies own fossil and mineral resources to a large extent, taxing them may play a greater role as a sanctioning tool in the future.” This applies to the current conflict with Russia, Edenhofer points out, but also beyond. In this context, Edenhofer promotes the idea of a European Central Climate Bank, which would be responsible for issuing and pricing emissions certificates.
You can find the slides of the presentation (in German) here .
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