This podcast addresses the following question: How does climate change affect China? It is based on current research of the presenter in the area of climate econometrics as well as a contribution to the March 2022 issue of IAEE’s newsletter “Energy Forum”. The answer to the question is: it depends - on which part of China one is interested in. There is not only regional heterogeneity in the extent to which temperatures already increased, the different regions in China face very different challenges, ranging from increased exposure to heatwaves to increases in flood and draught risk.
About Marc Gronwald
Marc Gronwald is a Senior Associate Professor in Economics at International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an-Jiaotong Liverpool University. He obtained a diploma (master equivalent) degree in Economics from the University of Bielefeld, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Hamburg. Prior to his appointment at IBSS, Marc Gronwald held appointments as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Aberdeen, and as Economist at the ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. He is member (fellow) of the CESifo Research Network and Research Associate of the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources. Marc Gronwald’s research focuses on empirical analyses of commodity and financial markets, in particular crude oil markets, emissions trading schemes such as the EU ETS, and markets for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. He is particularly interested in co-movement of time series. Recently, he also began working in the area of climate econometrics: the application of econometric methods to improve the understanding of the interaction of human activity and climate change.