

Raphael Calel
Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Raphael Calel is an applied environmental economist engaged in the evaluation of climate change policy. His research investigates the implementation and economic impacts of the EU Emissions Trading System and the Clean Development Mechanism, as well as the challenges of forecasting the economic damages from climate change. His personal website is: https://sites.google.com/view/calel.
Recent work by Raphael Calel
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Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme
Carbon offset programmes allow polluters to pay others to reduce emissions on their behalf. In theory, this can achieve the same emissions reductions at a lower cost, but only if the payment actually incentivises the recipient to cut emissions. If of...
Published 15.04.25