8:45am

Welcome – Hub Director, Professor Jeff Bennett

Session 1:
Analysing Tradeoffs with Cost Benefit Analysis and Non-Market Valuation
Chair – Professor Quentin Grafton
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9:00am

GUEST SPEAKER: Stale Navrud, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Non-market Valuation  - How reliable are meta analyses for international benefit transfers
» view [PDF, 1278KB]

9:30am

Professor John Rolfe, CQU
Valuing environmental improvements when the framing scope and certainty of outcomes change
» view [PDF, 110KB]

9:50am

Professor Jeff Bennett, Kasia Mazur and Marit Kragt, ANU
Community Values for Catchment Management
» view Kasia Mazur [PDF, 278KB]
» view Marit Kragt [PDF, 488KB]

10:20am

Sonia Akter/Jeff Bennett, ANU and John Rolfe, CQU
Assessing community attitudes to policy risks of emission reduction schemes
» view Sonia Akter/Jeff Bennett [PDF, 147KB]
» view John Rolfe [PDF, 397KB]

10:40am

Discussion:
Improving the analysis of environmental tradeoffs with information from non-market valuation experiments

11:00am

MORNING TEA

Session 2:
Designing solutions for Environmental Problems
Chair – Professor Jeff Bennett
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11:30am

Professor Quentin Grafton, ANU
Household Characteristics and Water Consumption
» view [PDF, 137KB]

11:50am

Dr Michael Ward, ANU
Economically efficient strategies for the conservation of Australian biodiversity
» view [PDF, 298KB]

12:10pm

Dr Tom Kompas, ANU
The benefits and costs of biosecurity
» view [PDF, 164KB]

12:30pm

Dr Lisa Lee, UNSW
Salinity, uncertainty and property rights
» view [PDF, 115KB]

12:50pm

Christoph Heinzel, UNSW
Tradeable green certificates as a means of environmental policy? Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence for Poland and Romania
» view [PDF, 162KB]

1.10pm

Discussion:
The role of market signals and property rights in mechanisms to address environmental problems

1:30pm

LUNCH

Session 3:
Climate Change and an Emissions Trading Scheme
Chair – Professor John Rolfe
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2:20pm

GUEST SPEAKER: Steve Hatfield-Dodds,  Department of Climate Change
Australian Climate Policy
» view [PDF, 422KB]

2:50pm

Frank Jotzo, ANU
Budget risks from the emissions trading scheme
» view [PDF, 130KB]

3:10pm

GUEST SPEAKER:Axel Michaelowa, Institute of Political Science/University of Zurich
What future for the Clean Development Mechanism?
» view [PDF, 608KB]

3:30pm

Regina Betz, UNSW
How to auction permits and predict the carbon price in Australia?
» view [PDF, 282KB]

3.50pm

Afternoon Tea

4:05pm

Phillia Restiani, UNSW
Implications of different penalty regimes on the efficiency of emission trading
» view [PDF, 437KB]

4:20pm

Greg Buckman, ANU
Renewable energy support policies: learning from overseas experience
» view [PDF, 292KB]

4:35pm

Paul Twomey, UNSW
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme for Greenhouse Gases: Are the Future’s Markets Contributing to Dynamic Efficiency?
» view [PDF, 300KB]

4:50pm

David Stern, ANU
Modelling the International Diffusion of Carbon Intensity Reducing Technology
» view [PDF, 867KB]

5:10pm

Discussion:
Design and Implementation issues for an Emissions Trading Scheme in Australia

5:30pm

Close of workshop