Carraro, Carlo
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Carlo Carraro

Full professor and former Rector of the Ca ’Foscari University of Venice

Full Professor of Econometrics and Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, Ca’Foscari University of Venice.

Vice-President of WG III and member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, Switzerland.

President of the Ministerial Commission on the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and mobility established by the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility.

Member of the High Level Advisory Group of DG ECFIN of the European Commission.

Member of the Strategic Committee of the Central Euro-Mediterranean Foundation on Climate Change (CMCC).

Member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network and Fulbright Scholar.

Member of the Mission Structure of the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility.

Research Fellow of CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research – London).

Main Topics:

  • Energy transition
  • Impacts of climate change
  • Solutions and policies to tackle climate change
  • Climate finance
  • Governance of climate change
  • Costs and benefits of ecological transition
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Energy and environmental transformation of the transport sector
  • Technologies for the decarbonisation of transport
  • Carbon credits and emission permit markets
  • Energy and climate policies in the EU

Professional Profile:

Carlo Carraro is President Emeritus and Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was President of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005 to 2008.

He was also President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, an initiative of the World Bank, OECD and UNEP, and, for more than twenty years, Scientific Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

In 2008, he was elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2015, he was re-elected for a second term. He worked as an IPCC Lead Author since 1995.

He is now Chair of the Executive Board of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), President of the National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility established by the Italian Minister of Transports and Infrastructures and a member of EU-DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group in Brussels.

He is Strategic Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), and a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network. He is also Research Fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies ), Munich, and Associate Research Fellow, CEPS (Center of Economic Policy Studies ), Bruxelles. In 2020 he has been elected a member of the Academia Europea.

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