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CESifo is a global, independent research network with members from across the world. Members are prominent economists with a broad spectrum of specialisms, each of whom brings years of experience and a high level of expertise to our research areas. Collectively, our mission is to advance international scientific knowledge exchange about economics and economic policy, to strengthen the cooperation between the ifo Institute and LMU Munich, and to maintain Munich as a vibrant hub of economic debate in Europe. CESifo is funded by the State of Bavaria.
The Energy and Climate Economics area is organized by Maximilian Auffhammer of the University of California, Berkeley. Its goal is to promote cutting-edge research on economic issues related to natural resources, energy markets, climate change and climate policy. Studying and addressing climate change is an issue that combines theoretical and empirical research across subfields in environmental and resource economics. Our interests span a wide range of topics including the design of climate policies and climate agreements, the promotion of renewable energy, the functioning of fossil fuel markets, and natural resource management. Policy intervention in markets is often motivated by climate, air pollution and natural resource scarcity concerns. An important aim of research in this area is to improve our understanding of the implications and unintended consequences of various policies, both for policies that have climate change as their primary concern and policies with other primary objectives.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.