2025 Energy and Climate Economics and Business Days

The Centre of Energy Business and Economics Research (CEnBER) of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Groningen and the University of Groningen Business School (UGBS) are pleased to announce the 2025 Energy and Climate Economics and Business Days on 25 and 26 March 2025.

Leading experts, interested practitioners, PhD candidates, alumni of both FEB and UGBS, and researchers at all career levels are invited to present and discuss innovative research on energy transition and climate policy in an economic or business context.

Call for abstracts and proposals

We invite submissions of extended abstracts of papers (or full papers) that examine energy and climate in an economic or business context, broadly defined. Extended abstracts should have a word count of 500 or more.

Contributions with different methodological backgrounds (theoretical, empirical, applied, numerical, experimental and behavioral research) are welcome. Authors at all levels are invited to submit. Submissions from PhD students and postdocs are especially welcome.

We also encourage proposals for a panel discussion on energy and climate policy (in English or Dutch).

Submissions, registration and deadlines

The deadline for the submission of papers, abstracts and panel discussion proposals is extended until 6 January 2025. Submitters will be notified of acceptance by mid-January.

Submit your abstract, proposal or full paper via this form.

The registration deadline for the conference is February 28, 2025. Please register via the registration form.

Please find more details about the conference below, click on each title to read more.

Conference Programme

The conference starts on Tuesday afternoon, March 25, and ends Wednesday March 26 at the end of the afternoon. A conference dinner is plannend for March 25.

There will be two plenary sessions, one focused on the economics of climate policy and the other on business aspects of energy transition. Both plenary sessions will have an academic keynote speaker and a discussant from government or business, followed by a plenary discussion.

The academic keynote speaker in the plenary session on climate-policy is prof. dr. Grischa Perino, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Hamburg. The other keynote speaker and the discussants will be announced as soon as possible.

In addition, there will be parallel sessions, in which participants can present and discuss their work.

In between and after the sessions there will be plenty of time for networking.

Venue

Conference sessions will take place at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Duisenberg Building at the University of Groningen’s Zernike Campus.

Costs

Registration fee for both days, including drinks, lunch, and dinner, is 75 euros.

Scientic Committee

The scientific committee in charge of organizing the sessions and reviewing submissions is composed of faculty members from the University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business.

The members of this committee are:

Dr. Thijs Broekhuizen
Prof. dr. Marco Haan
Dr. Pim Heijnen
Dr. Roweno Heijmans
Prof. dr. Machiel Mulder
Prof. dr. Bert Scholtens
Prof. dr. Ward Romeijnders
Dr. Arpan Rijal
Prof. dr. Evrim Ursavas

Organization Team

The organizers are prof. dr. Machiel Mulder, prof. dr. Evrim Ursavas, dr. Roweno J.R.K. Heijmans, and dr. Arpan Rijal, supported by Selma Bakker from the University of Groningen Business School. For practical questions, you may reach out to Selma Bakker (s.m.bakker@rug.nl).

This page will be frequently updated with information about the programme and speakers.

Last modified:

18 December 2024 5.23 p.m.