UK-China Workshop on Energy and Climate Change Economics

International collaborations are critical in addressing the global challenges of climate change and achieving the goal of worldwide fossil energy reduction. The UK is the first major economy to legitimize net-zero emissions of all greenhouse gases by 2050. China, the second largest economy, has also announced its goals to reach carbon neutrality before 2060.

University College London (UCL) and Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) will hold the UK-China Workshop on Energy and Climate Change Economics on December 3-4, 2021 in London. The workshop will serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to share the most recent ideas, outcomes, and practices on energy and climate change economics. It aims to form a sustainable collaboration mechanism between both sides, in order to build a world-class team on energy and climate change economics. The workshop is funded by the British Council and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Opening Remarks:

• Christoph Lindner, Professor and Dean of The Bartlett Faculty at UCL  
• Yi-Ming Wei, Professor and Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology

Keynote Speakers:

• Raimund Bleischwitz, Professor, University College London
• D’Maris Coffman, Professor, University College London
• Qiao-Mei Liang, Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
• David Maddison, Professor, University of Birmingham
• Bronwyn Wake, Chief Editor, Nature Climate Change

Editor session:

• D’Maris Coffman, Editor-in-Chief, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
• David Maddison, Co-Editor, Climate Change Economics
• Chuan Liao, Editor-in-Chief, World Development
• Yutao Wang, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cleaner Production
• Yi-Ming Wei, Editor-in-Chief, Energy and Climate Change

Chairs:

• Hua Liao, Beijing Institute of Technology
• Zhifu Mi, University College London

Date: 3rd December 2021 
Venue: UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Agenda

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title and affiliation
9.00 - 9.10	Opening remarks	Christoph Lindner	Professor and Dean of The Bartlett Faculty at UCL
9.10 - 9.20	Opening remarks	Yi-Ming Wei	Professor and Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
9.20 - 9.30	Introduction on the workshop	Zhifu Mi	Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction (BSSC) at UCL
	Keynote Speech Session Chair: Zhifu Mi
9.30 - 9.55	Going Nuclear: the importance of UNECE’s recent announcement to achieving sustainable energy transitions	D’Maris Coffman	Professor and Director of The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction (BSSC) at UCL
9.55 - 10.20	The circular economy in China: achievements, challenges and potential implications for decarbonisation	Raimund Bleischwitz	Professor and Director of The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER) at UCL
10.20 - 10.45	Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.10	How do demand-side policies contribute to the electrification and decarburization of private transportation in China? A CGE-based analysis	Qiao-Mei Liang	Professor and Head of the Research Division of Energy-Climate-Economy Integrated System Modeling in Center for Energy and  Environmental Policy Research (CEEP) at BIT
11.10 - 11.35	The disamenity impact of solar farms: A Hedonic analysis	David Maddison	Professor and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Environmental and Energy Economics and Management (BCEEEM) at University of Birmingham
11.35 - 12.00	Nature Climate Change and its interests on economics (TBC)	Bronwyn Wake	Chief Editor of Nature Climate Change
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch
	Invited Speech Session  Chair: Peter Ye
13.00 - 13.20	Net zero infrastructure development – the need for circular economy solutions	Patrick Schröder	Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House
13.20 - 13.40	A multi-factor integrated model for carbon price forecasting: Market interaction promoting carbon emission reduction	Lu-Tao Zhao	Professor and Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at BIT
13.40 - 14.00	Water 4.0: The digital transformation of the water sector	Evina Katsou	Professor and Course Director of the Water Engineering MSc at Brunel University
14.00 - 14.20	Cleaner Production and Life Cycle Thinking in Pulp and Paper Industry Towards Carbon Neutrality	Yutao Wang	Professor and Executive Director of Fudan Tyndall Centre at Fudan University
14.20 - 14.40	Resource resilient foundries: Transition to net zero	Konstantinos Salonitis	Professor and Head of Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre and the Deputy Director of the Manufacturing Theme at Cranfield
14.40 - 15.00	Sustainable and just energy transitions in the global south	Chuan Liao	Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
15.00 - 15.20	Coffee Break
	Journal Editor Session  Chair: D’Maris Coffman
15.20 - 17.00	Introduction on journals and tips for academic publishing	Journal editors	Co-Editor, Climate Change Economics  Co-Editor-in-Chief, Energy and Climate Change  Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cleaner Production  Co-Editor-in-Chief, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics  Co-Editor-in-Chief, World Development
17.00 - 19.00	Dinner

Register for online participation

Date: 4 December 2021
Venue: UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
There will be 3 parallel sessions.  

Supporting journals:
This workshop is supported by special issues of two journals. Selected papers will be recommended to the two special issues.

1. Special Issue on “The end game: how to achieve carbon neutrality”, Journal of Cleaner Production. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production/call-for-papers/how-to-achieve-carbon-neutrality 
2. Special Issue on “Carbon neutrality and socio-economic development”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/carbon-neutrality-soci...