Frank Jotzo works on the economics and policy of climate change, energy economics and policy, as well as on broader issues of development and economic reform. He has researched these topics for over a decade, focusing on Australia and countries of the Asia-Pacific. Frank has advised governments and consulted for international organisations. He has been advisor to Australia's Garnaut Climate Change Review, advisor to Indonesia‘s Ministry of Finance, consultant to the World Bank, and is a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is a frequent contributor to the public and policy debate in Australia and internationally. Frank is Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School, Director of the Centre for Climate Economics & Policy, and a Deputy Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute.

Research interests/expertise

Economics and policy of climate change, including mechanisms and policy design for greenhouse gas control, policy frameworks for adaptation to climate change, and international climate policy; energy policy and land-use change policy; economic development in countries of the Asia-Pacific region especially Indonesia and Australia; economic reform and political economy.

Key publications

• Jotzo, F., Burke, P., Wood, P., Macintosh, A. and Stern, D. (2012), ‘Decomposing the 2010 global carbon dioxide emissions rebound’, Nature Climate Change, 2(4), 213-214.
• Wood, P.J. and Jotzo, F. (2011), "Price floors for emissions trading", Energy Policy 39(3): 1746-1753.
• Jotzo, F. (2011), ‘Australia’s clean energy future’, Environmental Finance, Dec2011/Jan 2012 issue, pp. 14-15.
• Jotzo, F. (2011), ‘The Copenhagen targets : a basis for global climate action?’, Carbon Management 2(1), p.9-12.
• Stern, D.I. and Jotzo, F. (2010), ‘How Ambitious are China and India's Emissions Intensity Targets?’, Energy Policy, 38(11): 6776-6783.
• Pezzey, J.C.V., Mazouz, S. and Jotzo, F. (2010), ‘The logic of collective action and Australia’s climate policy’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 54: 185-202.
• Jotzo, F. and Betz, R. (2009), ‘Australia's emissions trading scheme: opportunities and obstacles for linking’, Climate Policy, vol. 9, pp. 402-414.
• Resosudarmo, B. and Jotzo, F. (eds, 2009), Development and Environment in Eastern Indonesia, Institute of South-East Asian Studies, Singapore. (Second edition 2010.)
• Garnaut, R., Howes, S., Jotzo, F. and Sheehan, P. (2008), ‘Emissions in the Platinum Age: the implications of rapid development for climate change mitigation’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 24, pp. 377-401.
• Pezzey, J.C.V, Jotzo, F. and Quiggin, J. (2008), ‘Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 97-110.
• Tacconi, L., Jotzo, F. and Grafton, R.Q. (2008), ‘Local causes, regional co-operation and global financing for environmental problems: the case of Southeast Asian Haze pollution’, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, vol. 8, no.1, pp. 1-16.
• Jotzo, F. and Pezzey, J. (2007), ‘Optimal intensity targets for greenhouse emissions trading under uncertainty’, Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 259–284.
• Jotzo, F. (2005), ‘Developing countries and the future of the Kyoto Protocol’, Global Change, Peace and Security, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 77-86.
• Levantis, T., Jotzo, F. and Tulpulé, V. (2005), ‘Sweetening the Transition in EU Sugar Preferences: The Case of Fiji’, The World Economy, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 893–916.
• Grafton, R. Q., Jotzo, F. and Wasson, M. (2004), ‘Financing Sustainable Development: Country Undertakings and Rights for Environmental Sustainability (CURES)’, Ecological Economics, vol. 51, no. 1–2, pp. 65–78.
• Jotzo, F. and Michaelowa, A. (2002), ‘Estimating the CDM market under the Marrakech Accords’, Climate Policy, vol. 2, no. 2–3, pp. 179–201

Highlighted research grants

• ARC Discovery grant, 2010-13: ‘International coalitions for climate change mitigation: the role of carbon market linkages and trade restrictions’ (sole CI, with Peter J Wood as named researcher)
• ARC Linkage grant, 2009-11: ‘Governance and economic incentives for reducing the contribution of tropical deforestation to climate change’ (joint CI with Luca Tacconi, and Peter Larmour and Emma Aisbett).
• Environmental Economics Research Hub, funded through Commonwealth Environment Research Facility (CERF), 2007-2010: Theme leader climate change, leader of two projects.

Recent opinion pieces

See Centre for Climate Economics & Policy

PhD students

Fitrian Adriansyah (Environmental implications of land use policies in a decentralised Indonesia)
Patrick Doupé (Financial incentives for reducing the contribution of deforestation to climate change)
Matthew Dornan (The Contribution of Renewable Technologies to Energy Security in Fiji)
Panel member for Shenghao Feng, Kurnya Roesad, Ditya Nurdianto, Jonathan Pickering, Ross Lambie, Greg Buckman.

Teaching

Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics (CRWF 8014)

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