Felix Pretis

Felix Pretis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria, and co-director of the Climate Econometrics research project at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining UVic, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford where he also completed his PhD in Economics, and a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley. His research concentrates on econometric methods applied to climate change and his work on the economic impacts of climate change was featured in the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C.

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The Promise and Limits of Carbon Pricing

Article | Nov 24, 2020

Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.

Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of CO2 Emissions

Paper Working Paper Series | | Nov 2020

Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.

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Osservatorio cites INET Working Paper on Carbon Pricing

News Feb 8, 2021

“A recent study by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, painting a wider picture, shows that the effective reduction in emissions due to carbon pricing policy comes to between just 1 and 2.5 percent of the total.” — Ornaldo Gjergji, Osservatorio