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Cameron Hepburn is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies at the intersection of economics and environmental science, focusing on climate change policy and economic implications related to energy and sustainability.

The main fields of study for Hepburn include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with 26 publications, and Environmental Science, with 19 publications. Their work spans several subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Hepburn's research topics cover key areas including Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, COVID-19 impact on air quality, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Energy and Environment Impacts.

Frequent co-authors in Hepburn's publications include Nicholas Stern, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dimitri Zenghelis, Penny Mealy, and Brian O'Callaghan, indicating collaborations with prominent researchers in economics and environmental policy.

Among Hepburn's recent papers are:

  • Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? (2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy)
  • Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: Clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities (2021, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology)
  • A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units (2021, Nature)
  • Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future (2024, Nature)
  • "Carbon pricing" special issue in the European economic review (2020, European Economic Review)

Hepburn's publications appear frequently in venues such as Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Nature, Nature Energy, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

They have contributed to book publications including titles published by Imperial College London and London School of Economics and Political Science. Notable books include "A net-zero emissions economic recovery from COVID-19" (2020) and "Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?" (2020).

Best Publications

  • The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

    Cameron Hepburn;Ella Adlen;John Beddington;Emily A. Carter;Emily A. Carter

  • The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

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  • Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?

    Cameron Hepburn;Brian O’Callaghan;Nicholas Stern;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Making carbon pricing work for citizens

    David Klenert;Linus Mattauch;Linus Mattauch;Emmanuel Combet;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: Clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities

    Cameron Hepburn;Ye Qi;Ye Qi;Nicholas Stern;Bob Ward

  • The impact of CO2 emissions trading on firm profits and market prices

    Robin Smale;Murray Hartley;Cameron J Hepburn;John Ward

  • Regulation by prices, quantities, or both: a review of instrument choice

    Cameron J Hepburn

  • Auctioning of EU ETS Phase II allowances: how and why?

    Cameron Hepburn;Michael Grubb;Karsten Neuhoff;Felix Matthes

  • A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units

    L. Kruitwagen;K. T. Story;J. Friedrich;L. Byers

  • Carbon Trading: A Review of the Kyoto Mechanisms

    Cameron J Hepburn

  • A Third Wave in the Economics of Climate Change

    J. Doyne Farmer;J. Doyne Farmer;Cameron Hepburn;Cameron Hepburn;Penny Mealy;Alexander Teytelboym

  • Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change

    David Anthoff;Cameron Hepburn;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Credible Carbon Policy

    Dieter Helm;Cameron J Hepburn;Richard Mash

  • Valuing the Future

    David Pearce;Ben Groom;Cameron Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri

  • The ‘2°C capital stock’ for electricity generation: Committed cumulative carbon emissions from the electricity generation sector and the transition to a green economy

    Alexander Pfeiffer;Richard Millar;Cameron Hepburn;Eric Beinhocker

  • Valuing water for sustainable development

    Dustin E. Garrick;Jim W. Hall;Andrew P. Dobson;Richard Damania

  • Ethics of the discount rate in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

    Wilfred Beckerman;Cameron Hepburn

  • Declining Discount Rates: The Long and the Short of it

    Ben Groom;Cameron Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri;David Pearce

  • The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

    Dieter Helm;Cameron Hepburn

  • Sensitive intervention points in the post-carbon transition.

    J. D. Farmer;J. D. Farmer;C. Hepburn;M. C. Ives;T. Hale

  • Valuing the future: recent advances in social discounting

    David Pearce;Ben Groom;Cameron J Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern London School of Economics and Political Science
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science
Phoebe Koundouri
Phoebe Koundouri Athens University of Economics and Business
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Samuel Fankhauser
Samuel Fankhauser University of Oxford
David Pearce
David Pearce University College London
J. Doyne Farmer
J. Doyne Farmer University of Oxford
Michael Grubb
Michael Grubb University College London
Karsten Neuhoff
Karsten Neuhoff German Institute for Economic Research
Antonis Papachristodoulou
Antonis Papachristodoulou University of Oxford

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