Description
Analyze the economic impacts of climate change and climate policies. Model costs, benefits, and distributional effects to inform carbon pricing, investment, and fiscal strategies for mitigation and adaptation.
- • Build and apply economic models to assess mitigation and adaptation scenarios.
- • Estimate costs, benefits, and co-benefits of climate policies and projects, including the social cost of carbon.
- • Design and evaluate market-based instruments such as carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems.
- • Analyze distributional, labor market, and regional impacts of climate policies.
- • Provide economic analysis for policy briefs on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and decarbonization.
- • Review and synthesize climate-economics literature and datasets from agencies, academia, and NGOs.
- • Prepare reports, briefs, testimonies, and presentations communicating economic findings to policymakers and stakeholders.
- • Advise on fiscal and budgetary implications of climate action, subsidies, and incentives.
- • Evaluate performance of carbon markets and clean energy incentives using econometric methods.
- • Assess climate-related financial risks and opportunities for public and private investments.
- • Develop cost-effective pathways and marginal abatement cost curves to guide strategy.
- • Present and defend research designs, assumptions, and results in meetings and hearings.
- • Prepare grant proposals and funding justifications for climate-economics research and programs.
- • Support design of monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track policy outcomes and return on investment.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
