• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Raymond J. Kopp

Resources for the Future

Vice President, Energy and Climate Program

Raymond Kopp holds PhD and MA degrees in economics and an undergraduate degree in finance. He has been a member of the RFF research staff since 1977 and has held a variety of management positions within the institution. Kopp's interest in environmental policy began in the late 1970s, when he developed techniques to measure the effect of pollution control regulations on the economic efficiency of steam electric power generation. He then led the first examination of the cost of major U.S. environmental regulations in a full, general equilibrium, dynamic context by using an approach that is now widely accepted as state-of-the-art in cost-benefit analysis. During his career Kopp has specialized in the analysis of environmental and natural resource issues with a focus on Federal regulatory activity. He is an expert in techniques of assigning value to environmental and natural resources that do not have market prices, which is fundamental to cost-benefit analysis and the assessment of damages to natural resources. Kopp's current research interests focus on the design of domestic and international polices to combat climate change.

Sessions With Raymond J. Kopp

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Carbon Price: How critical for decarbonization?
    Panel Climate/Environment/Sustainability Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics

    Global carbon prices are woefully below what would be necessary to substantively impact investment and demand. Events of the past year have highlighted the potential disconnect between policy goals and the voter willingness to pay for the actions that would be required. Yet 2018 also highlighted the reality of severe weather events and include the release of scientific reports predicting the future consequences of rising CO2 emissions. How do we get from here to there? Is carbon price the right mechanism? How should it be implemented? Can there be a global agreement or will we have vastly different national outcomes? This session will discuss the economics and politics of carbon pricing from a government and company view.