GCET24 Conference

24th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation

Paris-Dauphine University

September 06-08, 2023

The Conference in Paris

Climate & Biodiversity: Tackling global footprints

Dear GCET friends,

It is a great pleasure to invite you to Paris-Dauphine University for the 24th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation. GCET is the leading global forum for exchanges on the principles and practices of environmental taxation and other market-based instruments designed to protect the environment and foster sustainability. In line with the tradition, a selection of the best contributions will also be published this year in the prestigious “Critical issues in environmental taxation” from Edward Elgar publishers.

The scientific program for GCET24 will cover issues relating to environmental taxation and focus on economic tools to tackle mitigation issues, biodiversity losses and climate vulnerability, including but not limited to:

Challenges of agriculture and forestry for carbon sequestration, non-CO2 GHG & biodiversity,
Challenges of urban areas for land use, CO2 emissions and climate-resilience,
Supranational regulations to tackle domestic and imported CO2 emissions and biodiversity losses with a special focus on the recent reform of EU-ETS,
Business and biodiversity : Economical and financial risks and opportunities associated with the decline of biodiversity, nature-based solutions.

We look forward to welcoming you in Paris for this new edition of the conference.

Christian de Perthuis & Edouard Civel

Co-chairs of the Conference

About GCET

Global Conference on Environmental Taxation

The Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET) has been held every year since 2000 as an international meeting of environmental taxation specialists and a forum for the exchange of ideas and research findings on environmental taxation and other market-based instruments designed to protect the environment and foster sustainability.

The annual conferences provide an international and interdisciplinary setting to explore theoretical and practical issues concerning the design and implementation of environmental taxation. They are not intended to advance any particular environmental agenda but seek to advance knowledge and foster understanding and debate. The conferences bring together experts from many countries, representing a wide range of disciplines (law, economics, finance, environmental science, political economy, and more), sectors (academic, government and non-governmental institutions, and the private sector), and international organizations (such as the UN and OECD). As the conference series travelled around the globe over the years, it has helped build professional networks of colleagues across international boundaries that facilitate the exchange of knowledge during and outside the conferences.

Preliminary Schedule

Wednesday 6 September

18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday 7 September

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome addresses

09:30 – 11:00 Plenary session I

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel sessions 1

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 Plenary session II

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee beak

16:00 – 17:30 Parallel sessions 2

19:30 – 23:00 Social Event & Dinner at the National Museum of Natural History

Friday 8 September

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome coffee

09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session III

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel sessions 3

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 Plenary Session IV

15:30 – 16:00 Larry Kreiser award & Young Researcher Award

16:00 – 16:30 Closing remarks &

Next conference (GCET25)

Keynote Speakers

Across four plenary sessions, high-level academics and experienced members of national and international administrations will discuss developments on environmental tarification throughout the world. First plenary session will focus on the two main current challenges for the development of carbon taxation: on the one hand its extension in developing countries, and on the other hand the subsidies to fossil fuels, which create a negative taxation offsetting many carbon pricing initiatives. Second plenary session will discuss the evolution of EU ETS regulation and the coming introduction of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Third session will be dedicated to compensation challenges for the agricultural and forestry sectors. Fourth session will lastly focus on the importance of the preservation of biodiversity and its economic impacts.

More keynotes speakers will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

Anna Creti

Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine University, Director of the Climate Economics Chair

Christian Gollier

Professor of Economics at Toulouse-Capitole University, Executive Director of the Toulouse School of Economics

Katheline Schubert

Professor of Economics at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Associate chair at Paris School of Economics

Susanne Åkerfeldt

Senior Advisor at the Swedish Ministry of Finance, Sweden’s lead EU negotiator on energy and climate taxation issues

Frank Convery

Professor at University College Dublin, Former Chief economist at Environmental Defense Fund

Kurt Van Dender

Acting Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division at OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

Aldo Ravazzi Douvan

Economic Adviser at the Italian Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures & Mobility

Frédérique Chlous

Professor at the National Museum of Natural History, Scientific President of the French Council of Biodiversity

Arild Angelsen

Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Senior Associate of Center for International Forestry Research

Steering Committee

• Pr. Christian de Perthuis

• Dr. Edouard Civel

• Pr. Christian Gollier

• Dr. Philippe Delacote

• Jean-Michel Beacco

• Hafida Jeddor

• Claire Bérenger

• Valérie Bouba

• Pr. Sophie Méritet

• Pr. Janet Milne

• Pr. Hope Ashiabor

• Dr. Susanne Åkerfeldt

• Dr. Aldo Ravazzi Douvan

• Pr. Mikael Andersen

• Pr. Frédérique Chlous

Scientific Committee

Prof. Janet Milne, Vermont Law School, U.S.A.
Dr. Hope Ashiabor, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Alberto Comelli, Parma University, Italy
Prof. Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Prof. Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, London, UK
Prof. Daniel Gutmann, Chairman of the Academic Committee, EU Association of Tax Law
Prof. Marta Villar, CEU San Pablo University, Spain
Dr. Nils-Axel Braathen, OECD, France
Dr. Kurt Van Dender, OECD, France
Dr. Susanne Åkerfeldt, Swedish Ministry of Finance, Sweden
Prof. Thomas Sterner, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Prof. Jonathan Wiener, Duke University, USA
Prof. Jos Delbeke, European University Institute, Italy
Dr Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, GCET Kreiser Award 2022, Italy
Dr. Stefan Speck, European Environment Agency, Denmark
Prof. Theodoros Zachariadis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Prof. emeritus Larry Kreiser, Cleveland State University, U.S.A.
Dr. Joy Kim, United Nations Environment Programme
Prof. Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Prof. Anna Creti, Paris Dauphine-PSL University, France
Prof. Sophie Méritet, Paris Dauphine-PSL University, France
Prof. Katheline Schubert, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
Prof. Fanny Henriet, PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris, France
Dr. Philippe Delacote, Research director at INRAE, France
Dr. Philippe Quirion, Research director at CNRS, France
Pr. Frédérique Chlous, National Museum of Natural History, France