Latest Publications Working Papers 42.2010 What Should We Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D, by Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Romain Duval and Massimo Tavoni 53.2010 Religious Organizations, by Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin 78.2010 Illiquidity and all its Friends, by Jean Tirole more... Policy Briefs 05.2010 Investing in a low-carbon power sector, by Emanuele Massetti and Alice Favero more... Books Fede e mercato: verso una via islamica al capitalismo?, by Daniele Atzori Deforestation and Climate Change. Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, edited by Valentina Bosetti and Ruben Lubowski more... Save the Dates Workshops and Conferences 28 June - 2 July, 2010 - Montreal, Canada: Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, a joint initiative of EAERE and AERE 24 August 2010 - Glasgow, United Kingdom: FEEM Award Ceremony, 2010 more... Summer Schools 25 June - 9 July 2010 - Crete - Greece: Competition and Regulation European Summer School 4 - 10 July 2010 - Venice, Italy: European Summer School on Climate Change Negotiations 11 - 17 July 2010 - Venice - Italy: Summer School on Environmental accounting: externality valuation and Input-Output tools for policy analysis 12 - 18 September 2010 - Belpasso, Sicily: Belpasso International Summer School: The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation more...	Highlights FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize in environmental economics To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its foundation, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei will bestow the FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize at the 4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists that will be held in Montreal on June 28-July 2. The Prize will be awarded on June 30 to a researcher or a group of researchers from anywhere in the world who have most significantly contributed to the development of the field of environmental and resource economics over the 20-year period 1989 to 2009. FEEM 2009 Annual Report is now available on-line FEEM is pleased to announce the publication of the 2009 Annual Report. Browse through the online edition to have an overview of FEEM's recent activities, with detailed highlights on the research projects, events and publications. European Dialogue on the energy and climate challenge FEEM co-organized the second meeting of the European Dialogue on the Energy and Climate Challenge, hosted in Warsaw by the Polish National Centre for Emissions Management on June 23-24. After discussing the recent EC communication on EU climate change policies, the meeting focused on the analysis of strategic opportunities towards a low-carbon power sector in the new member states, on the challenges and opportunities for financing climate policies, as well as on the key policy challenges in the transport sector. The 2010 International Energy Workshop The International Energy Workshop (IEW) 2010, held in Stockholm on June 21-23, was attended by several FEEM researchers who illustrated and compared their research on future climate, energy and economic scenarios, with outstanding scientists in the field. FEEM indeed presented the results of the EC funded project "Probabilistic Long-term Assessment of New Energy Technology Scenarios - PLANETS" during four special sessions at the workshop. The project PLANETS aims to devise robust scenarios for the evolution of energy technologies in the next 50 years. FEEM and KPMG publish the 2009 Privatization Barometer Annual Report As of 2010 KPMG becomes the unique partner of Privatization Barometer, the internet portal dedicated to privatization processes in the enlarged Europe launched and managed by FEEM since 2004. The publication of the 2009 Privatization Barometer Annual Report represents the first step of a long term strategic partnership between FEEM and KPMG that will provide data, research skills and financial resources to the project. Sustainability indicators in policy making On May 24-25, FEEM organized in Venice an international workshop on the analysis and comparison of different approaches and measures to assess sustainability. The workshop addressed the definition of sustainability and the use of indicators and aggregate indices; the methodologies adopted for the aggregation and construction of indicators; and the operationalization of sustainability. The workshop was preceded by a conference of Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize laureate, on sustainability indicators, jointly organized with the University of Venice. Institutions for climate governance Renowned scholars from the academic world gathered at FEEM in Venice on May 20-21 for the international workshop on "Institutions for Climate Governance", jointly organized with ICCG, CMCC and the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Aim of the meeting was to discuss the institutional setting of future climate policies. In particular the workshop addressed the role of organizations in setting, negotiating and implementing climate agreements and the contribution of research to the design of more effective institutions for climate policy from the economic, political science, international relations, and legal perspectives. FEEM and Monitor Group release the Sovereign Wealth Fund Annual Report 2009 On May 18, 2010, FEEM and Monitor Group released the Sovereign Wealth Fund Annual Report 2009 entitled "Back on Course: Sovereign Wealth Fund Activity in 2009". The report shows that in Q3 SWFs have emerged with long-term strategies around investments, focusing on a wider range of markets and avoiding the financial sector. As previously predicted, the funds have picked up investment pace again, but are approaching risk differently having learned from the losses they suffered in 2008. FEEM News - Published bimonthly. If you would like to unsubscribe, please write to news@feem.it Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Corso Magenta 63, Milano - Italia - www.feem.it - e-mail: news@feem.it