Seminars

Students are invited to attend some seminars chosen from the list of seminars herewith for at least 15 hours (hours can be gained only if offered as extra hours compared to regular lessons). 

Attendance will be checked through identification and signature for seminars in presence and through identification and screenshots to be provided by the students themselves for seminars online. 

3 credits will be assigned to students ​upon delivery of a short essay (about 2500 characters - 2 pages) on one of the topics covered in the seminars and a list of all seminars attended. The documents need to be sent to Professor Elettra Agliardi, Programme Director, and also to cdlm.resd@unibo.it 

The evaluation will be on a pass/fail basis.

No application or registration is required for seminars organized by RESD.

For seminars held by external bodies refer to the relative websites.

All interested students are welcome.

The page will be updated during the year with new seminars.

SEMINARS 2025/2026

Seminars organized by RESD

“Temperature shocks and climate change: A conceptual analysis”

Understanding the dynamics of temperature shocks and climate change through conceptual and analytical lenses

Professor Christian Traeger, University of Oslo (Norway)

6th November 2025 | 02:30 - 03:30 PM CEST | Online seminar (via Microsoft Teams – please click here for joining)

Inaugural Lecture on “Artificial Intelligence for Climate Policy”

Deciphering public attention and attitudes to emerging climate engineering technologies using social data science and Artificial Intelligence
Professor Ramit Debnath, University of Cambridge (UK)

22 September 2025 |4 - 6.30 pm | Room Alberti 1 

(Credits will be given for in presence attending)

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Seminars organized by other bodies

Credits will be given for attendance online. In order to get the credits recognized, students shall send a copy of the registration email and a brief summary (15 lines max) of the seminar content to the Degree Director and Programme Coordinator upon completion of the 15 hours overall).

CEPR

11 December 2025  | 5 pm | Juanma Castro-Vincenzi (University of Chicago) presents "Weathering the Storm: Supply Chains and Climate Risk".

13 November 2025|  5 pm | Sabrina Eisenbarth (University of St Gallen) presents "Carbon leakage resulting land-based climate change mitigation measures"

30 October 2025 | 5 pm | Francesco Trebbi (UC Berkeley and CEPR) presents "Climate Politics in the United States".

2 October 2025 | 5 pm | Wei Xiang (University of Michigan) presents "Clean Growth and Environmental Policies in the Global Economy".

You can find more details on the upcoming Seminars and recordings of past Seminars at the series webpage: https://cepr.org/events/event-series/virtual-seminar-climate-economics

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Workshop on "Climate Risk Uncertainty"

9 September 2025 | 9 am - 6 pm | Room Alberti 7

(No credits will be given for attendance)

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e-axes forum

Marcin Kapecperczyk will present his paper with Patrick Bolton and Tianyu Wang on the link between inflation and the carbon premium of U.S. listed companies, especially, in the presence of energy price inflation.
Speakers:
Marcin Kacperczyk
Professor of Finance, Imperial College, London
Moderator:
Stephen G. Cecchetti 
Rosen Family Chair in International Finance, Brandeis University
8 September 2025 | 6:15PM |online
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(Credits will be given for attendance. In order to get the credits recognized, students shall send a copy of the registration email and a brief summary (15 lines max) of the seminar content to the Degree Director and Programme Coordinator).

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SEMINARI 2025/2026

Seminari di attualità economica

10 October 2025 | 10 am - 12 pm | Room Alberti 7

Luca Mercalli

Breve storia del clima in Italia. Dall’ultima glaciazione al riscaldamento globale

(Credits will be given for in presence attending)