Energy Transition, Climate Change, and COVID-19: Economic Impacts of the Pandemic

This volume analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on energy transition and climate change from an economic perspective. Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a powerful effect on multiple facets of the global economy. The unknown scope and duration of the pandemic and its associated economic shocks have made energy security and the process of clean energy transition highly unpredictable. To combat this, this edited volume presents a wide range of theoretical and empirical research at the nexus of the COVID-19 pandemic and energy, resource, and environmental economics. Chapters focus on four major themes: the impact of crises on energy security, the role of resilient energy systems in society, the challenges of clean energy transition, and economic impacts of COVID-19 on climate change.

Providing rigorous analysis of an evolving situation that will continue to impact the global energy market, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of energy economics, environmental economics, and resource economics as well as policy professionals involved in climate change and energy transition.

Fateh Belaïd is a Professor of Economics at Lille Catholic University (France), Director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities Research Center, with appointments in Ecole des Ponts & Chaussées ParisTech, and Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques. He is also a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modelling, and econometrics. Dr. Belaïd is already recognized as a productive scholar in a number of fields, the focal point being environmental and energy economics but also in energy policy, decision-making process, and time series econometrics. He has published widely on household energy consumption, energy-saving behaviors, individual preference and investment in energy efficiency, fuel poverty, as well as on renewable energy and energy policy. Outlets for his work have included Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Environmental Management, Energy Policy, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Environmental Modeling & Assessment, Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, Journal of Environmental Science & Policy, Finance Research Letters, Applied Economics Letters; European Journal of Comparative Economics, The Journal of Energy and Development, and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Anna CRETI is full Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL. She is the Scientific Director of the Climate Economics Chair (Dauphine University) and the Economics of Gas Chair (Dauphine University, Toulouse School of Economics, IFPEN, Ecole des Mines), and also Research Fellow, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and external Affiliate, Siebel Institute, Berkeley. 

Anna has previously worked at the Toulouse School of Economics, Bocconi University, Nanterre University and has been visiting the University of California Santa Barbara and Berkeley. She has extensively studied competitionand regulation of utilities in Europe, as well as the link between energy, climate and environmental regulation. Her research interests span from theoretical modelling, with a focus on applied industrial economics, to econometrics and simulation models.

Co-editor of Energy Economics, Anna has numerous publications in The Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, Energy Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, etc. She has edited a book on Natural Gas Storage (Springer, 2009) and recently released a book on Economics of Electricity: Market, Competition and Rules (Cambridge University Publishers, 2019).