Carlo Carraro is President Emeritus and Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was President (Rector) of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005 to 2008.
From 2009 to 2023 he was Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was also Chair of the Executive Board of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), President of the Italian National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility established by the Italian Minister of Transports and Infrastructures, and a member of EU-DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group in Brussels.
Carlo Carraro is Strategic Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network. He is also Research Fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies ), Munich.
Book
Towards a workable and effective climate regime
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- Environment 
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VoxEU Blog/Review
A New Era for Europe
VoxEU Column
On the recent US-China agreement on climate change
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- Environment
VoxEU Column
Greening Economics: It is time
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- Environment
VoxEU Column
Carbon pricing and the role of natural gas in EU climate policy
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- Energy 
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- EU policies
VoxEU Column
When should China start cutting its emissions?
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- Environment