My academic life treated me like this my whole phd 😂 welcome to the club 🥲 get well soon! Stay safe from bees, wasps, jellyfish 😇

(First conference in phd: stung by a bee, second one, EAERE: jellyfish 🪼)

Our speakers in pictures ✨

- A 10% decrease in fossil fuel support leads to a 0.6% (0.06%) increase in export capability for the most (least) fossil fuel-intensive industry

- Unilateral removal of fossil fuel subsidies has a stronger negative impact on competitiveness than coordinated global action (see figure)

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- A 10% decrease in fossil fuel support leads to a 0.6% (0.06%) increase in export capability for the most (least) fossil fuel-intensive industry

- Unilateral removal of fossil fuel subsidies has a stronger negative impact on competitiveness than coordinated global action (see figure)

(2/3)

Also: First thing I did was to get myself a second-hand bike to get to campus - not really realising that the campus is on a hill. But good to be here! 🌟

Excited to start my second week at UBC in Vancouver! 🎉

I am visiting Carol McAusland and her colleagues who are also working on trade & environmental economics. 🌍 Bright minds, amazing campus, and kudos to the awesome pool! 🏊‍♂️

Looking forward to amazing three months! #UBC

How to decrease your menu costs to zero:

Just finished the last interviews of my flyout - which went surprisingly well despite my wrong good-luck-socks matching 🧦

I didn't realise Monday & Wednesday had the same colour...

Fingers crossed that the universe cares more about my academic output than my choice of socks 😅

Ich habe auch was 😀
"Schlechter Untergrund" - Warnung in Richtung Deutschland.

Students now had to give short pitches on the pros and cons of Integrated Assessment Models for policy analysis, in particular the SCC. One group used the following in the presentation, featuring lecturer @richardtol.bsky.social:

How to end an incredibly busy week well? 😇

✅ submitted my revision of my first paper (fingers crossed!)

✅ teach another tutorial on the Economics of Climate Change (let students discuss IAMs): two students told me that they enjoy the course, & one student shared cake with me (vegan & delicious 😋)