IZA & J-PAL Policy Roundtable on Harnessing Rigorous Research to Shape Climate Policy and Inform the Public Debate
Using Research to Shape Climate Policy
The IZA Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), J-PAL, and J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative are pleased to invite you to the policy roundtable Harnessing Rigorous Research to Shape Climate Policy and Inform the Public Debate.
This event will take place in-person in Bonn, Germany the evening of Wednesday, 14 May 2025. As part of the IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics, the event will bring together an active audience of representatives of European policy organisations, as well as the participants of the IZA scientific workshop.
The policy roundtable will address how different organisations—governments, funders, and implementing organisations—use rigorous evidence to define and carry out their climate policies. Speakers will also discuss how collaboration between policymakers and researchers can be more effectively leveraged to inform climate policy, sharing J-PAL’s own Air and Water Labs as a case study for this work.
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Program
Times in the program refer to CEST:
Wednesday, May 14
17:30 - 19:00
Policy Roundtable: Harnessing Rigorous Research to Shape Climate Policy and Inform the Public Debate
Moderated by Andre Zollinger (J-PAL Senior Policy Manager | Environment, Energy, and Climate Change)
Speakers
Ottmar Edenhofer
Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ahmed Elsayed
Executive Director of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa and IZA
Kira Vinke
Head of the Center for Climate and Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations
Lucy Yu
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the Centre for Net Zero
More speakers to be announced.
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