Talks
Speaker(s) indicated in italic.
2024
June 27, 2024: “Energy finance via public export credit agencies: Trends and implications amidst the climate crisis”, 45th International Association for Energy Economics International Conference, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul/Türkiye (P. Censkowsky, P. Waidelich, I. Shishlov, B. Steffen)
June 11, 2024: "Systematic review of the effectiveness of green financial policies in re-directing finance flows in line with the Paris Agreement", What Works Climate Solutions Summit 2024, Berlin/Germany. (V. de los Casares, B. Steffen)
May 28, 2024: “The economics of direct air capture”, ETH Net Zero Day, ETH Zürich, Zürich/Switzerland (K. Sievert)
2023
November 15, 2023: “Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature”, Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting 2023, Venice/Italy (P. Waidelich, F. Batibeniz, J. Rising, J.S. Kikstra, S.I. Seneviratne)
October 18, 2023: "The role of state investment banks for renewable energy technologies in OECD countries", SAEE 14th Student Chapter Workshop, Zurich/Switzerland (P. Waidelich, B. Steffen)
July 26, 2023: "The influence of uncertainty on the decarbonisation of the specialty chemicals industry", 18th IAEE European Conference, Milan, Italy (P. Tautorat, J. Iversen, T. S. Schmidt, B. Steffen)
July 25, 2023: "The role of state investment banks for renewable energy technologies in OECD countries", 45th International Association for Energy Economics European Conference, Bocconi University, Milan/Italy (P. Waidelich, B. Steffen)
June 29, 2023: "The role of state investment banks for renewable energy technologies in OECD countries", 28th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Cyprus Institute/Cyprus University of Technology/University of Cyprus, Limassol/Cyprus (P. Waidelich, B. Steffen)
February 16, 2023: "State investment bank financing for renewables in the OECD", 13. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung, TU Wien, Vienna/Austria (P. Waidelich, B. Steffen)
2022
September 28, 2022: "De-risking the decarbonisation of the European cement industry", 11th International Ruhr Energy Conference (INREC), Essen, Germany (P. Tautorat, N. Ljubić, B. Steffen, T. S. Schmidt)
September 23, 2022: "Policies for accelerating the decarbonisation of the European cement industry", 17th IAEE European Conference, Athens, Greece (P. Tautorat, N. Ljubić, B. Steffen, T. S. Schmidt)
September 8, 2022: “Technologies and policies for the decarbonization of cement and steel production”, ISTP Summer School on Greening and Governing Global Supply Chains, Filzbach, Switzerland (P. Tautorat)
September 8, 2022: “Reaching climate objectives: the role of carbon dioxide removals (CDR)”, ISTP Summer School on Greening and Governing Global Supply Chains, Filzbach, Switzerland (K. Sievert)
June 24, 2022: “Credit provision for immature low-carbon technologies: Assessing green state investment bank under experience feedbacks”, 9th Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, A Toxa, Spain (P. Waidelich, J. Krug, B. Steffen)
June 22, 2022: “Fit for 55? Contrasting green infrastructure investment needs in Europe with the EU’s sustainable finance strategy”, FSR Sustainability Conference on “Greening Infrastructures”, Florence School of Regulation, Florence/Italy, (L. Klaassen, B. Steffen)
June 18, 2022: “Projecting future costs of direct air capture using component-based experience curves”, International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden (K. Sievert; B. Steffen, T. Schmidt)
May 12-13, 2022: “Credit provision for immature low-carbon technologies: Assessing green state investment bank under experience feedbacks”, 29th Young Energy Economists and Engineers Seminar, Universiteit Gent, Belgium (P. Waidelich, J. Krug, B. Steffen)
2021
March 3, 2022: “Die Rolle von Finance für die Transformation zur Klimaneutralität”, Keynote 11. Forum Klimaökonomie, DIW Berlin, Germany (B. Steffen)
December 2, 2021: “Energy consumption and CO2 emissions of cryptocurrencies”, Thematic Event by GreenBuzz: Cryptocurrency & Sustainability – A Contradiction in Terms?, WWF headquarter, Zurich/Switzerland (L. Klaassen)
November 4, 2021: “Lessons learned from Paris Alignment of multilateral development banks”, UNFCCC Climate Conference COP26 (Official Side Event), Glasgow, United Kingdom (B. Steffen)
October 6, 2021: “Exploring the falling cost of electricity storage”, ees Europe 2021 Restart conference, Messe München, Munich/Germany (B. Steffen)
September 9, 2021: “Comparing the levelized cost of electric vehicle charging options in Switzerland and Europe”, SFOE conference Mobility Research and Innovation in Switzerland, Lucerne/Switzerland (L. Lanz, B. Noll, T.S. Schmidt, B. Steffen)
September 8-10, 2021: “Elektroauto-Ladegestehungskosten: Ein europäischer Vergleich”, 12. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien (IEWT), Vienna/Austria (L. Lanz, B. Noll, T.S. Schmidt, B. Steffen)
September 8, 2021: “Net zero transition‘s impact on finance”, ETH Zurich Industry Day, Zurich/Switzerland (B. Steffen)
July 20-23, 2021: “Automated Identification of Climate Risk Disclosures in Annual Corporate Reports”, 38th International Conference on Machine Learning ICML (D. Friedrich, L. Kaack, A. Luccioni, B. Steffen)
July 7, 2021: “Accounting for finance in electrification models for sub-Saharan Africa”, Seminar Series Energy & Finance, House of Energy Markets and Finance, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen/Germany (C. Agutu, F. Egli, N.J. Williams, T.S. Schmidt, B. Steffen)
June 23-25, 2021: “The Impact of Electric Utility Ownership Structures on High- and Low-Carbon Investment Decisions”, 26th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), (B. Steffen, V. Karplus, T.S. Schmidt)
June 7-10, 2021: “The impact of electric utility ownership structures on low-carbon investment decisions”, 1st International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Online Conference (B. Steffen, V. Karplus, T.S. Schmidt)
May 21, 2021: “Going forward: Financing challenges and opportunities post COVID-19”, Financing Decarbonization – INNOPATHS Final Dissemination Event, Utrecht University School of Economics, online (B. Steffen)
April 28, 2021: “New data needs for decision-making related to the low-carbon energy transition”, Keynote at Energy Data Working Group Meeting, Open Knowledge Foundation, Swiss Chapter, online (B. Steffen)