Dr Daniel H. Karney, from Ohio University, will deliver a seminar titled “Understanding Carbon Leakage from Climate Policy” on Wednesday 25 October at International House and on Zoom.
An existing or potential climate policy to limit carbon emissions, such as a cap-and-trade scheme or carbon tax, is likely to cover emissions in only some regions, countries, and sectors. The concern about leakage – the increase in emissions elsewhere not covered by the policy – then arises since emission leakage reduces net carbon abatement.
This research identifies the key economic determinants of leakage, and then labels and explains seven different effects within aggregate leakage. Numerical values from three different policy models are employed to calculate the signs and magnitudes of the seven effects in each model. The identified 'fuel price effect' is the largest positive effect on leakage, while the other six effects in combination have a significant net negative effect on leakage. These results inform the design of future climate policy or potential modifications to current climate policy.
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On Thursday 26 October, Professor Anne Ring Petersen, from the University of Copenhagen, will deliver a seminar titled “Enacting Prefigurative Politics through Art: Afterthoughts on ruangrupa’s Documenta Fifteen”.
This presentation centres on Documenta Fifteen, a globally influential quinquennial exhibition curated by the Indonesian collective ruangrupa and held in 2022. It delves into how ruangrupa's curatorial concept of 'lumbung' served as a generative methodology and infrastructure, pointing towards future collective practices grounded in principles of sustainability, cooperation and redistribution.
A notable aspect of Documenta Fifteen was its unprecedented involvement of 1,500 participants, comprising both individuals and collectives, in the formation of a 'lumbung community'. This presentation zooms in on one of the contributing collectives, the Trampoline House – a welcoming community centre for asylum seekers and local citizens in Copenhagen – to shed light on how members of the 'lumbung community' embraced ruangrupa's principles in their contributions to documenta fifteen. It further explores how they developed and enacted a transversal and prefigurative approach to art, addressing the challenges of an era marked by accelerating crises that transcend national borders.
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