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Encuentro Anual SETI 2024

Fecha límite: 21 de abril de 2024, 23:59 ET USA.

Nos complace anunciar que el Noveno Taller Anual de la Iniciativa de Transiciones Energéticas Sostenibles (SETI) se llevará a cabo del 18 al 19 de junio de 2024, de manera virtual a través de Zoom.

Envía tu ponencia/resumen extendido en el siguiente enlace: [https://bit.ly/3PhXOmU](https://bit.ly/3PhXOmU).

Si deseas realizar una inscripción temprana como asistente, por favor completa este formulario (no te inscribas aquí si ya has enviado un manuscrito/resumen): [https://bit.ly/3PrBjvQ](https://bit.ly/3PrBjvQ).

Este año, alentamos dos formatos de presentación para trabajos relacionados con temas actuales en la transición energética global, incluidos pero no limitados a cualquiera de los subtemas específicos identificados en la siguiente sección (Sobre los temas del taller):

- Manuscritos de investigación originales sobre trabajos avanzados.

- Resúmenes extendidos sobre trabajos en progreso (<1,000 palabras).

La fecha límite para enviar manuscritos y resúmenes extendidos es el 21 de abril en el siguiente enlace: [https://bit.ly/3PhXOmU](https://bit.ly/3PhXOmU).

También alentamos a los investigadores a enviar ideas para sesiones de políticas, que incluyan cualquiera de las siguientes combinaciones de elementos: discurso principal, mesa redonda, sesiones de trabajo, discusión plenaria moderada, también sobre los mismos subtemas y temas de interés para la colaboración. Visita el siguiente enlace para enviar ideas para dichas sesiones antes del 21 de abril: [https://forms.gle/mrBfmeQP2TizZNxRA](https://forms.gle/mrBfmeQP2TizZNxRA). Si no puedes acceder a ningún formulario, por favor envía la información a This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Recomendamos enviar estas ideas lo antes posible, dado que la planificación de estas actividades requiere tiempo adicional. Ten en cuenta que las sesiones de políticas se llevarán a cabo en línea, permitiendo la participación de formuladores de políticas y profesionales de múltiples países al mismo tiempo. Por lo tanto, se animan las ideas de sesiones de políticas multilaterales.

Sobre los temas del taller

Al igual que en reuniones anteriores, nuestro objetivo es reunir a destacados expertos que trabajan en el tema de la transición energética sostenible desde una variedad de perspectivas disciplinarias y organizaciones, pero con un fuerte énfasis en economía y políticas. La reunión probablemente consistirá en una serie de presentaciones y comentarios de oradores y comentaristas, y/o sesiones con profesionales y formuladores de políticas que trabajan en temas energéticos y de desarrollo.

En términos de temas específicos, acogemos especialmente trabajos de reflexión o sintéticos sobre:

1. La naturaleza y el progreso de las transiciones energéticas en los países de ingresos bajos y medianos.

2. La efectividad de intervenciones destinadas a reducir la pobreza energética en diferentes contextos.

3. El progreso y el potencial de políticas de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático en países de ingresos bajos y medianos.

También alentamos presentaciones relacionadas con los siguientes subtemas prioritarios de SETI:

- Transición energética de baja emisión de carbono en el Sur Global, incluyendo palancas y soluciones políticas para acelerar la transición, y análisis de su efectividad.

- Transición energética de baja emisión de carbono en África, con un enfoque particular en países de África subsahariana y oriental.

- El nexo de género y transición energética, incluyendo la investigación sobre el papel del empoderamiento en facilitar la transición energética y cómo las transiciones energéticas pueden contribuir al empoderamiento.

- Consecuencias de la pobreza energética e impactos de las transiciones energéticas a diversas escalas (hogares, empresas y el medio ambiente regional y global).

- Impulsores de la transición energética en contextos de ingresos bajos y medios, incluidas lecciones de experiencias pasadas.

- Adopción e impactos de soluciones renovables y fuera de la red o micro-red.

- Impactos e impulsores de la contaminación del aire regional y los mecanismos políticos utilizados para gestionar la calidad del aire.

- Estudios multilaterales en transición energética de baja emisión de carbono, con un enfoque en el Sur Global.

- Estudios en el Norte Global que aprovechan el conocimiento para la solución de problemas de transición energética en el Sur Global.

- Nuevos métodos y fuentes de datos para medir el acceso a servicios energéticos modernos.

- Evidencia empírica que aborda otras lagunas de investigación identificadas en la revisión sistemática de SETI de la literatura más amplia sobre transiciones energéticas.

La participación en el taller será abierta y gratuita para todos, aunque se requerirá preinscripción.

Información importante adicional

Para múltiples presentaciones, por favor envía múltiples formularios. Intentaremos notificar a aquellos con ponencias aceptadas a fines de mayo.

Si tienes alguna pregunta sobre el encuentro, por favor contacta a Cristóbal Vásquez (Coordinador de Proyectos de SETI) en This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Sinceramente,

La Iniciativa de Transiciones Energéticas Sostenibles

Encuéntranos en X: @SETIenergy

Oportunidad Laboral: Asistente de Investigación en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Estimados colegas,

Se encuentra abierta la convocatoria para la posición de Asistente de Investigación a nivel de maestría a tiempo completo en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), con enfoque en el análisis microeconómico de cuestiones medioambientales, de recursos naturales y cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe. Esta posición, de duración de uno a dos años, estará ubicada en la sede del BID en Washington, DC. Para más detalles, por favor consulten la descripción del puesto a continuación.

Si conocen a alguien que podría ser un buen candidato, no duden en informarme directamente. Asimismo, les invito a difundir la descripción del puesto; estaré encantado de recibir solicitudes directamente de los candidatos.

¡Gracias!

Descripción del trabajo:

- Colaborar con el investigador principal, Allen Blackman, en el análisis microeconómico de cuestiones medioambientales, de recursos naturales y cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe.

- La posición iniciará en primavera o principios de verano de 2024.

- Contrato de un año, con posibilidad de extensión por un segundo año.

- Jornada completa (~40 horas por semana).

Requisitos indispensables:

- Maestría en economía ambiental o campo relacionado.

- Experiencia y formación significativas en econometría.

- Amplia experiencia con Stata.

- Dominio del inglés y español.

- Atención al detalle.

- Habilidades de comunicación escrita y oral sólidas.

- Capacidad para trabajar de manera independiente.

- Disponibilidad para comenzar en primavera o principios de verano de 2024.

- Ciudadanía de uno de los 48 países miembros del BID.

- No tener familiares trabajando actualmente en el BID o IDBInvest.

Se valorará:

- Experiencia previa como asistente de investigación.

- Conocimientos de portugués.

- Experiencia con R, Python, ArcGIS y QGIS.

Contacto:

Allen Blackman

Asesor Económico Principal

Sector de Cambio Climático y Desarrollo Sostenible

202-523-7423

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No pierdan la oportunidad de formar parte de nuestro equipo en la búsqueda de soluciones sostenibles para América Latina y el Caribe.

Webinar on Environmental and Development Economics

In collaboration with WinEED, EdD presents a thought-provoking webinar featuring two distinguished speakers this month – Amaka Nanji and Raavi Aggarwal.

Amaka Nanji, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington, will delve into the intricate dynamics of agricultural productivity, food security, and poverty reduction in Nigeria. Join her as she presents "Risk-perception, farmer-herder conflicts, and production decisions: evidence from Nigeria."

Raavi Aggarwal, a PhD candidate at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, will share her research on the household energy transition and the distributional impacts of carbon pricing policies in Uganda. Explore the complexities of structural change and green industrialization in India with her presentation, "Optimal emissions pricing in LMICs accounting for household emissions from traditional cooking."

Date: March 20, 2024

Time: 3 PM CEST

Venue: Zoom

The webinar is free for all participants, and the recordings will be available on the EfD YouTube Channel. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into critical environmental and development economics issues. Feel free to share this message with your network. We look forward to your active participation.

Warm regards,

Job Opportunities at Equalsea Lab - Postdoctoral Positions and Project Manager Role

Dear LAERE community,

We are excited to announce job opportunities at Equalsea Lab, led by Dr. Sebastian Villasante. We are currently looking to fill four full-time postdoctoral positions and one part-time project manager role. Join us in advancing research and contributing to the fields of social tipping points, ocean equity indicators, ownership and concentration of the fisheries sector, as well as the use of technologies and future visions.

Available Positions:

1. Postdoctoral Position - Social Tipping Points: Explore the dynamics of social tipping points related to marine ecosystems and sustainability.
2. Postdoctoral Position - Ocean Equity Indicators: Contribute to the development and enhancement of indicators assessing equity in the context of ocean-related issues.
3. Postdoctoral Position - Ownership and Concentration of the Fisheries Sector: Investigate patterns of ownership and concentration within the fisheries sector to inform policies for sustainable practices.
4. Postdoctoral Position - Use of Technologies and Future Visions: Examine the role of technologies in shaping the future of marine and environmental sciences.
5. Part-time Project Manager: Facilitate the coordination and management of research projects within Equalsea Lab.

Application Deadline: March 1st, 2024

Interested candidates are invited to apply by sending their application materials to Sebastian Villasante at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

*Further details regarding each position can be found in the attached document.*

Positions for Doctoral researchers at University of Göttingen

Dear LAERE Community,

The University of Göttingen has opened 15 positions for Doctoral Researchers, who will join the Research Training group “Sustainable Food Systems” funded by the German Research Foundation.

The positions should be filled by September 1st, 2024. The positions involve interdisciplinary research on questions related to “Sustainable Food Systems”. To know more about the application process, see the file attached to this e-mail.

Kind regards,

WinEED team

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Special issue at Environment for Development

This is a friendly reminder about the special issue of Environment and Development Economics titled “Challenges for the development of Latin America in the Anthropocene: current research in environmental economics” that Marcelo Caffera and Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, members of LAERE's editorial board, are co-editing.

Please share with your network and consider submitting your work if you have something about Latin America.

The deadline has been extended to 31 March 2024. More details in the link below.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-development-economics/announcements/call-for-papers/challenges-for-the-development-of-latin-america-in-the-anthropocene

The seminar has been postponed to January 24th (same time as before)

PhD programmes at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland

Here are two Ph.D. programmes offered by the University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, which has recently become an EfD Centre.

For researchers with an interest in environmental and development economics, the following Ph.D. programmes might be of interest:

Ph.D. in Economics: At this link, you can find more information on the programme and how to apply: https://www.ucd.ie/economics/phd/ . If you want to know more about the application process, the programme, whether it's possible to waive the application fee, and funding opportunities, I recommend that you get in touch with our coordinator, Lesley Tohill ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), and the School’s Ph.D. Director, Dr Nora Strecker ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). Note that to be considered for a scholarship you must apply by January 26, 2024, and include a research proposal. If you are admitted to the Ph.D. programme then you will be matched to a supervisor based on your research interests (I'm one of the potential supervisors in Energy, Environment, or Natural Resources Economics).
PhD in Global Human Development: See information at this link https://www.ucd.ie/spire/study/prospectivephdstudents/phdglobalhumandevelopment/ and contact Dara Gannon ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) and Professor Krishna Vadlamannati ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). The deadline to apply for this programme should be in July, but you can ask the contacts for more information and funding opportunities. In this joint programme, you spend part of the time at UCD in Ireland and part of the time at a university in Africa or Asia. This programme is suitable for government personnel and public servants (such as Higher Education academics, and research institutes).

The university offers other programmes that may be of interest, for example a Ph.D. in Quantitative and Computational Social Science and a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy.

More information on how Ph.D. programmes are organised at UCD and all the programmes on offer can be found here: https://www.ucd.ie/graduatestudies/researchstudenthub/researchprogrammes/keypointsonresearchprogrammes/phdinanutshell/

PhD opportunity in research group of the University of Göttingen

At the University of Göttingen -Public Law Foundation-, Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung, there is a position as

Research assistant / PhD student (all genders welcome)

Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L/65%

to be filled. Starting date is as soon as possible. The position is limited to 3 years.

The project

The advertised position is part of the DFG-funded research project ‘Designing effective policy instruments for sustainable land transformation’. The rapid expansion of oil palm monocultures in Indonesia has been associated with economic development, but also with major environmental repercussions. It is crucial to identify strategies to reconcile these trade-offs. In this project we aim to use economic experiments in the field to investigate the role of providing monetary and non-monetary incentives to smallholder farmers for fostering a sustainable land use transformation in Indonesia.

Your tasks

The doctoral researcher will conduct research on the effectiveness of different attributes of Payments-for-Ecosystem-Services schemes to induce adoption of sustainable land use practices, and will explore the relevance of experiential learning as an education tool to increase environmental awareness, values and pro-environmental behavior. The tasks include:

Design and implementation of field experiments in Jambi, Indonesia
Empirical analysis of quantitative data using statistical and econometric methods
Presentation and publication of research results

Your profile

Outstanding Master degree in Agricultural Economics, Development Economics or a related discipline
Strong analytical skills and experience with quantitative research methods; work experience with economic or behavioral experiments is a plus
Proven interest in topics related to rural development economics and economic incentives or extension services
Willingness and ability to work under field conditions in the tropics (rural Indonesia); work experience in the tropics is a plus
Interest in interdisciplinary cooperation; experience of working in intercultural and interdisciplinary teams is a plus
Excellent command of the English language

The position is based in Göttingen (Germany) but requires traveling and extended research stays in Indonesia. The position is intended to qualify young scientists and offers the opportunity to prepare a PhD thesis. The position is recruited in the research group of Prof. Dr. Meike Wollni. For more information about the Chair Group please visit: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/108411.html. Your complete application package should include motivation letter, CV with the contact details of two referees, university certificates and transcripts, and a 1-2 page summary of your Master thesis.

The University of Göttingen is an equal opportunities employer and places particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for women. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in fields in which they are underrepresented. The university has committed itself to being a family-friendly institution and supports their employees in balancing work and family life. The University is particularly committed to the professional participation of severely disabled employees and therefore welcomes applications from severely disabled people. In the case of equal qualifications, applications from people with severe disabilities will be given preference. A disability or equality is to be included in the application in order to protect the interests of the applicant.

Please upload your application in one pdf file including the usual documents until 1/15/2024 on the application portal of the university using this link: https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/Index/74322. For more information get in touch with Adriana Bernal-Escobar directly via E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Tel. +49 5513924835.

Please note:

With submission of your application, you accept the processing of your applicant data in terms of data-protection law. Further information on the legal basis and data usage is provided in the Information General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

EFD-Webinar Series with Jan Steckel

This month the EfD-Webinar Series returns, and we are honored to have Jan Steckel as our first speaker for the year. Jan is an accomplished researcher based at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) where he leads the working group “Climate and Development”.

About the Webinar:

Title: Who is affected by carbon pricing and why? Evidence from 87 countries

Date: January 24, 2024

Time: 2 PM CEST

Venue: Zoom

Note: The webinar is FREE to all.