Call for Papers: Climate Change Policies after 2012

                  CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

      3RD ATLANTIC WORKSHOP ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

                  CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AFTER 2012

                            A Toxa (Spain)
                            4 - 5 July 2008


      The Research Group in Economics, Business and the
      Environment (rede) at the University of Vigo (Spain)
      announces the 3rd Atlantic Workshop on Energy and
      Environmental Economics. The workshop will be held on the
      island of A Toxa (near Vigo, in Galicia) on the 4-5 of July
      2008 and will be appealing to researchers, policy makers
      and other agents interested in the economic aspects of
      climate change policies.

      This year the guiding research subject of the workshop is
      Climate Change Policies after 2012. The workshop will
      include keynote lectures by Scott Barrett (Johns Hopkins),
      Carlo Carraro (Venice) and William Nordhaus (Yale), and
      invited papers by Joseph Aldy (RFF), Denny Ellerman (MIT),
      Michael Hanemann (Berkeley), Juan P. Montero (PUC Chile)
      and Santiago Rubio (Valencia).


      PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

      Submitted papers will be considered for presentation in the
      workshop. Deadline for submission of theoretical or applied
      papers is May 5, 2008. Complete papers should be sent by
      email (as pdf format) to:

      Email:       MAILTO:rede@uvigo.es

      including: name, affiliation, email address, abstract of
      less than 100 words, JEL codes and no more than 5 keywords.

      Acceptance of papers will be notified by May 20, 2008.
      After this date, registration will be open (with a fee of
      200 Euro), and information on accommodation on the Island
      of A Toxa will be posted in rede's web page:

                     http://rede.uvigo.es


      ORGANIZERS:

      Xavier Labandeira and Jose M. Martin-Moreno, rede and
      University of Vigo.

      The scientific committee includes the organizers and other
      members of rede: Carlos De Miguel, Maria Loureiro, Baltasar
      Manzano, Miguel Rodriguez and Julia Touza.
Posted 4/7/08