Richard Tol

Richard SJ Tol (born December 2, 1969 in Hoorn ) is a Dutch economist .

Life

Tol is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Sussex , United Kingdom and also holds the professorship in the economics of climate change at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , Netherlands . He is a member of the Academia Europaea. Before that, he was professor at the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences as well as at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin , Ireland , from 2000 to 2006 . He also worked at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg.

Tol obtained a master's degree in econometrics from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1992 and received a doctorate in economics in 1997 . From 1998 he contributed with 19 other scientists to the environmental program of the UN. Tol also served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . He was a professor in Hamburg from 2000 to 2006 and then went to the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 .

Tol has an h-index of 16 and is counted among the top 250 economists worldwide according to Research Papers in Economics .

He believes measures against greenhouse gases in Ireland are economically harmful and considers the negative effects of climate change to be overrated. Tol took part in projects of the Copenhagen Consensus several times and is one of the critics of the Stern Report . In 2014, shortly before the status report of the second AR5 working group was published, he announced his resignation. In his view, “the résumé of the UN report drifts in the direction of alarmism”.

Web links

• Hamburger Site; Biog., CV, bibliography (some articles; PDF) ( Memento from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• IDEAS / RePEc
• Academia
• Literature by and about Richard Tol in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Tol: University of Sussex. Retrieved April 23, 2019 . 
2. ^ Academy of Europe: Tol Richard. Retrieved April 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Homepage of the ESRI energy division
4. ^ Homepage of the ESRI environmental department
5. ↑ JF et al. Feenstra: Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies 1998 print (accessed October 10, 2008).
6. ^ Membership directory: Richard SJ Tol. Academia Europaea, accessed January 9, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Top 5% Authors on IDEAS / RePEc
8. ↑ Irish Times, Dec 20, 2007
9. ^ Richard Tol: Why Worry About Climate Change? . ESRI. 2009. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 3, 2011. 
10. ↑ Alleged scare tactics: leading researcher leaves the top of the world climate council Der Spiegel, March 2014, by Axel Bojanowski