Regina Betz
Regina is teaching environmental economics at the School of Economics at the UNSW. She studied economics in Germany and the U.K. and obtained her PhD through research analysing the impact of different designs of carbon trading systems on transaction costs. From 1997-2004 she has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Technology and Environmental Economics at the Fraunhofer (FhG) Institute of Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Her work focuses on climate change policies and their associated instruments, such as Joint Implementation, the Clean Development Mechanism and particularly emissions trading. Her publications largely relate to the design and implementation of these instruments. From 1998 -2004 she has been a consultant to the German Federal Ministry of Environmental with respect to the Kyoto Mechanisms and Emissions trading (e.g. National Allocation Plan), and has been closely involved with European Union and United Nations negotiations on climate change (UNFCCC).
Publications
Title & place of publication | Author | Research area | Type | Links | Year |
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Implications of EU Enlargement on the EU Greenhouse Gas "Bubble" and Internal Burden Sharing," International Environmental Agreements in Politics, Law and Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 267-279 |
Axel Michaelowa, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Archived | 2001 | |
Simulating Emissions Trading in Southwest Germany. In: European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (Paris): Proceedings of the 2003 eceee Summer Study. Time to turn down energy demand, 2-7 June 2003, Saint Raphael, France, Vol. 3, 2003, p. 1023-1031. |
Joachim Schleich, Regina Betz, Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Christian Hoppe, Stefan Seifert | Emissions trading | Archived | 2003 | |
EU Emissions Trading and Transaction Costs for Small and Medium Sized Companies,INTERECONOMICS, Review of European Economic Policy, Vol. 39, No. 3, p. 121-123. |
Joachim Schleich, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2004 | |
Designing National Allocation Plans for EU Emissions Trading - A First Analysis of the Outcome, in: Energy and Environment, Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 375-425. |
Regina Betz, Wolfgang Eichhammer, Joachim Schleich | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2004 | |
Submission to 'A National Emissions Trading Scheme' background paper for stakeholder consultation | Regina Betz, Iain MacGill, Robert Passey | Emissions trading | Submissions | 2005 | |
Emissions trading to combat climate change: The impact of scheme design on transaction costs, at the British Institute of Energy Economics (BIEE) Academic Conference in association with UK Energy Research Centre, St John's College Oxford. The associated presentation is also available. |
Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Conference Papers | pdf, presentation | 2005 |
Incentives for energy efficiency and innovation in the European Emission Trading System, in Proc. ECEEE'2005, Nice, June |
Joachim Schleich, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2005 | |
Emissions Trading for Australia: Design, transition and linking options |
Regina Betz, Iain MacGill | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2005 | |
Emissions trading: lessons learnt from the 1st phase of the EU ETS and prospects for the 2nd phase , Climate Policy 6, pp351-359 |
Regina Betz, Misato Sato | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | link | 2006 |
Emissions Trading to Combat Climate Change: The impact of scheme design on transaction costs, at the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society's 2006 Conference, Sydney, 8th-10th February 2006 |
Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Conference Papers | 2006 | |
EU Emissions trading: an early analysis of national allocation plans for 2008-2012, Climate Policy, volume 6, no. 4, pp 361-394 |
Regina Betz, Karoline Rogge, Joachim Schleich | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | link | 2006 |
Implications of announced phase II national allocation plans for the EU ETS Climate Policy, volume 6, no. 4, pp 411-422 |
Karsten Neuhoff, Markus Ahman, Regina Betz, Johanna Cludius, Federico Ferrario, Kristina Holmgren, Gabriella Pal, Michael Grubb, Felix Matthes, Karoline Rogge, Misato Sato, Joachim Schleich, Jos Sijm, Andreas Tuerk, Claudia Kettner, Neil Walker | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | link | 2006 |
An Early Assessment of National Allocation Plans for Phase 2 of EU Emission Trading |
Karoline Rogge, Joachim Schleich, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2006 | |
Load-Based Licensing: Getting the rates right, at the 35th Australian Conference of Economics (ACE) 25th-27th September 2006, Perth, WA. |
Tiho Ancev, Regina Betz | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Conference Papers | 2006 | |
What is driving Price Volatility in the EU ETS? in the Australasian Emissions Trading Forum Review, Oct/Nov 2006 pp4-5 |
Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2006 | |
Further Definition of the Auction proposal in the NETT Discussion paper, August 2007 |
Regina Betz, Stefen Seifert | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2007 | |
EU Emission Trading - Better Job Second Time Round?, Working Paper Sustainability and Innovation Nr. S 2/2007 |
Joachim Schleich, Regina Betz, Karoline Rogge | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | link | 2007 |
Draft Submission to the PM&C Discussion Paper, Abatement Incentives Prior to the Commencement of the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme | Regina Betz, Iain MacGill, Rob Passey | Emissions trading | Submissions | 2007 | |
Emissions Trading: Good Governance Requires 100% Auctioning, for the Centre for Policy Development, 13th June 2008 |
Iain MacGill, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Articles | 2008 | |
A Lost Opportunity for Leadership, for NewMatilda, 22nd July 2008 |
Iain MacGill, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Articles | 2008 | |
The Policy Issues Arising with the Linking of International Emissions Trading Schemes, Australian Resources & Energy Law Journal, volume 27, no. 1, pp 86-104 |
Regina Betz, Ashley Stafford | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2008 | |
CEEM Submission to the Garnaut Review Emissions Trading Scheme Discussion Paper, April 2008 |
Iain MacGill, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Submissions | 2008 | |
Auctioning greenhouse gas emissions permits in Australia, EERH Research Report No.29 |
Betz, R., Cramton, P., Seifert, S. | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2009 | |
Expensive beast still has no teeth, OpEd in AFR, 25th of May |
Regina Betz, Iain MacGill | Emissions trading | Articles | 2009 | |
Linking the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme, a working paper. EERH Research Report No 14. Final version to be published in Climate Policy Special Issue later in 2009 |
Frank Jotzo, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2009 | |
'The Implications of Australia's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme for its National Electricity Market', a CEEM/University College London Working Paper [forthcoming] |
Betz, R., Owen, A. | Emissions trading, Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Reports and Working Papers | 2009 | |
No climate for change, in ABC News Opinion and Analysis section, 8th May |
Regina Betz, Iain MacGill | Emissions trading | Articles | 2009 | |
Notes for introductory statement to the Senate Economics Committee, 1st May 2009, and the Proof Committee Hansard, Reference: Emissions trading and reducing carbon pollution |
Iain MacGill, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Submissions | pdf, Proof Committee Hansard | 2009 |
Notes for introductory statement to the Senate Economics Committee, 27th March 2009, and the Proof Committee Hansard, Reference: Exposure drafts of the legislation to implement the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme |
Regina Betz, Iain MacGill, Paul Twomey | Emissions trading | Submissions | pdf, Proof Committee Hansard | 2009 |
Optimal coverage of installations in a Carbon Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), EERH Research Report No.28 |
Betz, R., Sanderson, T., Ancev, T. | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2009 | |
'Incentives for energy efficiency in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme', Energy Efficiency, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 37-67 |
Schleich, J., Rogge, K., Betz, R. | Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Emissions trading | Journal Papers | link | 2009 |
Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Scrutiny of New Taxes, Nov 2010 |
Paul Twomey, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Submissions | 2010 | |
'Was kommt nach Kopenhagen? Ein Ausblick aus der Sicht Australiens und seiner asiatisch-pazi?schen Nachbarn' ['What comes after Copenhagen? A view from the perspective of Australia and its Asia-Pacific neighbors'], In: KAS Auslandsinformationen 26.2010, pp. 37-58. [this is in German] |
Regina Betz, Johanna Cludius | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2010 | |
The Copenhagen Prediction Market (COPPM) Prospectus | Betz, R., Cludius, J. | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2010 | |
Experimental Testing of Possible Designs for the Australian Carbon Pollution Permit Allocation Auction, report prepared for the Department of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency, Canberra. This report was only released in March 2012. |
Betz, R., Ehrhart, K-M., Greiner, B., Ortmann, A., Schweitzer, S., Seifert, S. | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2010 | |
Additional Action Reserve: A proposed mechanism to facilitate additional voluntary and policy emission reductions efforts in emissions trading schemes, CEEM discussion paper for comment DP_100212, February 2010 | Twomey, P., Betz, R., MacGill, I., Passey, R. | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | 2010 | |
Market Performance under Different Penalty Design: Experimental Evidence on Emissions Trading Scheme with Auctioned Permits, International Energy Workshop, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology. Stockholm, Sweden. 21-23 June 2010 |
Phillia Restiani, Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Conference Papers | 2010 | |
'Australian Domestic Offset Policies: An example for achieving real greenhouse gas emissions reductions?', Joint Implementation Quarterly, 16(4), p 11-15 | Betz, R., MacGill, I., Passey, R. | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | link | 2011 |
'Australia - Finally a Carbon Pricing Scheme?' in Greenhouse Gas Market 2011, Asia and Beyond: the Roadmap to Global Carbon & Energy Markets, by the International Emissions Trading Association |
Jones, M.C.[nid:331], Twomey, P., MacGill, I., Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Reports and Working Papers | link | 2011 |
'The New South Wales load based licensing scheme for NOx: Lessons learnt after a decade of operation', Ecological Economics, 80, pp. 70–78 | Ancev, T., Betz, R., Contreras, Z. | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2012 | |
'Achieving additional emission reductions under a cap-and-trade scheme’, Climate Policy, 12(4), p424-439. | Twomey, P., Betz, R., MacGill I.F. | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2012 | |
Climate change has costs beyond the carbon price | Iain MacGill , Jenny Riesz , Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Articles | link | 2013 |
'Submission regarding the Australian Governments Emissions Reduction Fund' | Iain MacGill , Jenny Riesz , Regina Betz | Emissions trading, Sustainability & general | Submissions | 2013 | |
Submission on Repealing the Carbon Price | Iain MacGill , Jenny Riesz , Regina Betz | Emissions trading | Submissions | 2013 | |
‘Trading in energy efficiency in Australia: What are the lessons learnt so far?, first published in the Proceedings of the eceee 2013 Summer Study, 3-8 June 2011, Belambra Presqu'île de Giens, France. | Betz, R., Jones, M.C., MacGill, I., Passey, R. | Emissions trading, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation | Conference Papers | 2013 | |
'Emissions Trading in Practice: Lessons learnt from the European emissions trading scheme', in Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia | Betz, R. | Emissions trading | Book Chapters | 2014 | |
'Designing Prediction Markets for International Negotiations: Lessons Learnt from the Climate Summit in Copenhagen’, Global Environmental Change, 27, p106-119 | Betz, R., Cludius, J., Twomey, P. | Emissions trading, Sustainability & general | Journal Papers | 2014 | |
'Emissions from electricity generators in response to environmental taxes: Evidence from Australia’, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, 33/2, p119-144 | Contreras, Z., Ancev, T., Betz, R. | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2014 | |
'A Framework for Designing & Categorising Capacity Markets – Insights from an Application to Europe', 38th IAEE International Conference, Antalya, Turkey | Riesz, J. , Thorpe, G., Cludius, J., Betz, R. | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Extended abstract | 2015 | |
'Transfer patterns in Phase I of the EU Emissions Trading System: a first reality check based on cluster analysis’, Climate Policy | Betz, R., Schmidt, T.S. | Emissions trading | Journal Papers | 2015 | |
'Assessing possible generation portfolios for China’s future carbon constrained electricity industry', by Peerapat Vithayasrichareon, Regina Betz, Iain MacGill, Xinyang Wei, Qing, T., Yu, W. and Jotzo, F. | Vithayasrichareon, P., Betz, R., MacGill I., Wei, X., Qing, T., Yu, W., Jotzo, F. | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Large-scale Renewable Energy | Reports and Working Papers | 2015 | |
'Minimum Reliability Subscription, Capital Efficient Community Microgrids With High Share Of Renewables' | Emi Minghui Gui, Iain MacGill , Regina Betz | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation | Reports and Working Papers | link | 2020 |
Events
Event | Presenter | Type | Research area | Location | Date |
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Auctioning greenhouse gas emissions permits in Australia | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | CEPE Lunch Seminar, ETH Zurich | Friday, November 11, 2011 |
Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity: How does the European Emissions Trading Scheme score? | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | Wegener Centre, University of Graz, Austria | Thursday, November 3, 2011 |
The Copenhagen Prediction Market (COPPM) - Lessons from a Field Experiment to aggregate information on the status of Climate Change Negotiations | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) Colloquium | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
Designing Policy Instruments to Combat Climate Change: Lessons learnt from the EU ETS | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | Institute for Environmental Decisions, Zurich, Switzerland | Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
The Copenhagen Prediction Market (COPPM) - Lessons from a Field Experiment to Forecast Climate Change Negotiation | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | European ESA conference, Luxemburg | Friday, September 16, 2011 |
The Australian Energy Efficiency Schemes | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation | European workshop on experiences and policies on energy saving obligations and white certificates, Varese, Italy | Friday, January 28, 2011 |
Domestic Offset Schemes in Australia: Domestic Offset projects as a supplementary policy to achieving GHG emissions reductions | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | Energy Delta Convention 2010, Groningen, Netherlands | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
Policy instruments for a sustainable energy future: CEEM’s vision | Regina Betz | Seminar | Sustainability & general | Friday, January 1, 2010 | |
Masterclass: Developing a National Carbon Trading Scheme for Australia | Regina Betz , Iain MacGill | Short course | Emissions trading | Friday, January 1, 2010 | |
International Research Workshop: Global Environmental Issues | Regina Betz | Workshop | Emissions trading | Friday, January 1, 2010 | |
Emissions trading in Australia - allocation challenges | Regina Betz , Iain MacGill , Hugh Saddler | Public forum | Emissions trading | Friday, January 1, 2010 | |
Carbon Trading - Implications for Business | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | Australian Institute of Credit Management Annual Conference | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
Climate Change and the Hunter - Impacts of CPRS | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | Infrastructure Integration and Economic Development in the Hunter Region Conference | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
The governance challenge for implementing effective, efficient and fair market-based climate policies: Case studies of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | EGOS colloquium, Barcelona | Friday, July 3, 2009 |
Uniform Standard or Emissions Trading? Efficient coverage of installations in a GHG Emission Trading Scheme | Regina Betz | Seminar | Emissions trading | EAERE Annual conference, Amsterdam | Friday, June 26, 2009 |