February 8th, 2022 Location: Aula Magna -Historic Building (University of Barcelona)

09:00 - 09:15 OPENING CEREMONY

· Joan Guàrdia Olmos, Rector of University of Barcelona

· Martí Parellada Sabata, FIEB President and FUNSEAM Board of Trustees Member

· María Teresa Costa-Campi, Chair of Energy Sustainability and University of Barcelona

· José García-Quevedo, Section Head of Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business.

09:15 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION

· “Universal access to modern energy services: Development imperative and climate opportunity”, Shonali Pachauri (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

10:00 - 11:15 I. ENERGY AFFORDABILITY Chair: Elisa Trujillo-Baute (UdL)

· “Encouraging consumer activity through automatic switching of the electricity contract - A field experiment”, Gerald Zunker (Ruhr-University Bochum)

· “Economic efficiency and CO2 impacts from the clean cooking program in Ecuador”, Daniel Davi-Arderius (Chair of Energy Sustainability (UB – IEB))

· “Power reliability and grid connection: evidence from rural Guatemala”, Federico M. Accursi (UNAV)

11:45 – 13:00 II. GREEN MARKETS Chair: Paulina Beato (Economic Adviser)

· “Risk transmission between green markets and commodities”, Tooraj Jamasb (CSEI)

· “Over-allocation profits, inefficiencies and competition issues: a close-up into the interaction between the EU-ETS and the steel industry”, María-Eugenia Sanín (University of Evry, Paris-Saclay)

· “Is capacity to adapt to risk faced from climate change rewarded in financial markets?”, Ronald Huisman (Erasmus School of Economics)

13:45 – 15:00 III. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS Chair: Andreas Löschel (Ruhr-University Bochum)

· “The effects of home energy retrofit on residential energy expenditures and carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from France”, Victor Kahn (MINES ParisTech)

· “The direct and indirect effects of environmental investment subsidies on green investment”, Kinga Tchorzewska (ZEW Mannheim)

· “Pricing the risk of weather in variable renewable energy generation”, Jorge M. Uribe (UOC)

15:00 – 15:45 CLOSING SESSION

· “Decarbonisation and its discontents: A critical justice perspective on four low-carbon transitions”, Benjamin Sovacool (University of Sussex Business School)

15:45 - 16:00 CLOSING CEREMONY

More information: https://ieb.ub.edu/ca/event/x-international-academic-symposium-green-opportunities-for-the-energy-sector/