This is Where I've Been Recently

I can't tell you anything about the IPCC meeting in Changwon City and so thought I'd post this instead. I did a day long tour from Seoul to various places near and in the DMZ including the above. I also gave a presentation at Korea Energy Economics Institute where my former student Sung Kim works since March. I talked about our study of energy and long-run growth in Sweden.

The "Google Way" to Visualize Research

Yesterday, I showed one potential way of visualizing my research areas. Another way is using the web to tell us just like Google does. In fact, I did a Google Scholar search on myself and then put the results (with some cleaning up) into Wordl:I could have also cleaned out my name from the data first (using the replace function in Word) but decided against that. Some of the topics from

Visualizing Research Areas and Links

I've been trying to give an overview of my research for a presentation and came up with this:I've tried to fit various of the topics I've worked on in the last decade within three disciplinary fields and the overlaps between them. In the middle I put "Meta" to represent my interest in meta-analysis and bibliometric analysis. This doesn't cover everything. My recent energy efficiency stuff is

Global Trends in Carbon and Sulfur Emissions

I'm preparing a lecture on environmental economics for both my course "Economic Way of Thinking 1" at the Crawford School and as a guest lecture in an introductory economics course at the Treasury. I'm planning to open the lecture by presenting some global and regional trends, focusing on carbon and sulfur emissions. First the global trends using data from CDIAC and Steven Smith:and then data by

EEN Symposium on Monday

The http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2010/10/een-symposium-22-24-november.html">EEN Symposium at the Crawford School starts on Monday. I'm giving my presentation at 1:30pm. The slides are here. For more details on the Symposium please visit the Crawford School website.

Seminar 9th November

Just a reminder that next Tuesday 9th November at 2:00pm I will be giving a seminar at the Arndt Corden Division of Economics on the role of energy in long-run economic growth. I'll be happy to send you a copy of my paper if you e-mail me. We hope to get it up on the web in a formal working paper series soon at which point I will blog about it. Abstract and details are here.

EEN Symposium: 22-24 November

The EEN Symposium will take place between 22nd and 24th November at the Crawford School at ANU. The symposium will showcase the results of the research carried out by the Environmental Economics Research Hub as well as presentations of 14 invited papers from outside researchers. My presentation is at 1:30pm on Monday, 22nd November.Registration is free! You can find the full program here.

Seminar at Lund

If you are going to be in southern Sweden or eastern Denmark, you may be interested that I will be giving a seminar on 15th September at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Topic: "The Role of Energy in Long-Run Economic Growth". I don't know the time or exact location yet but I'm sure the department can help out on that. For those of you in Canberra I will be speaking on the

Change of Date for Seminar

Change of date for my forthcoming seminar. It will now be on 9th November. All the other details remain the same.

Seminar 26th October

I know this is a long time off, but I just agreed to do a seminar at 2pm on 26th October in Seminar Room B, Coombs Building, ANU. Title is: "The Role of Energy in Long-Run Economic Growth". I will report on my work in collaboration with Astrid Kander at University of Lund on energy and growth in Sweden over a couple of centuries. I also have started supervising a graduate student as part of an

Martin Parkinson Gives the Sir Leslie Melville Lecture

This lecture was part of an annual series in memory of economist Leslie Melville who was the second vice-chancellor (=president) of the Australian National University. Parkinson, who has a PhD in economics from Princeton, made a point related to ">Ken Henry's recent comments. He said that there was limited engagement on climate change among Australian economists (with exceptions such as Ross

CERF National Conference

In a last minute substitution I am going to be presenting instead of Regina Betz at the CERF National Conference at Old Parliament House on Tuesday at 1pm. Title will be "Modelling Global Energy Efficiency Trends". I'll try to cover both implications for Australian energy efficiency and Chinese and Indian emissions intensity targets in the 15 minutes allowed.

Link to Frank's Presentation

You can find a video of Frank's presentation on Tuesday here.

Media Release: Developing Countries Set Climate Benchmark

As I mentioned, Frank Jotzo will be giving a presentation at the Crawford School today (Tuesday, 23rd March) on his work on comparing countries' Copenhagen targets and our joint work on the ambition of China and India's emissions intensity targets. Below is the media release we are putting out. We are also putting out an EERH working paper, details to follow.TUESDAY 23 MARCH 2010DEVELOPING

John Cochrane's Tips

John Cochrane's writing tips for PhD students. He also has some good tips on presentations in the paper. But I can't see how you can go directly to your results if people don't yet know what you are trying to do, what your question is and what your model is etc.

Some Things Coming Up...

I haven't blogged much this month as I've been very busy, mainly on trying to finish my EERH Hub project and set up the next stage in my career. A couple of the things coming up soon:Frank Jotzo will be giving a presentation at the Crawford School at 12:30 on Tuesday analyzing the emissions reduction targets put forward by countries at Copenhagen. This will include our joint work on China and

Australian Energy Efficiency in Context

Slides for a presentation I will be giving on Tuesday on putting Australia's level of energy efficiency into context. Here's a quick guide...Slide 3 compares Australia's energy intensity (energy/PPP GDP) to 5 developed and 2 developing economies. Australia is mid-way between the US and Canada on the one hand which are relatively inefficient by this measure and Germany, Japan, and the UK which are

Slides for Hub Workshop

Here are the slides for my presentation at the Environmental Economics Research Hub 2010 workshop in Adelaide on Tuesday. They have a lot of overlap with http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2010/02/chinas-emissions-intensity-target-bau.html">my presentation to the China forum we just had at ANU, but there are a couple of new things. There's a slide of global energy intensity. There's also a slide

China’s Emissions Intensity Target: BAU, Feasible, or Infeasible?

I've put up some slides that I'm planning on using at a forum with some people from the Chinese government here at ANU this week that are a preview of where I'm heading for my presentations at the Environmental Economics Research Hub Workshop and AARES Conference in Adelaide next week. There isn't much text on the slides. The basic story is that I use a model of energy intensity to extract the

ANU Economics Showcase Slides

I'm presenting on Thursday in the ANU Economics Showcase. I'll be speaking in the 1:30-3:00pm slot. You can find a draft of my slides here and my abstract over there.