Speaker: Dr. Jiarui Zhong

Date: November 19, 2026

Time: 15:00 – 18:00

Venue: Room A0306, CEM Building, Jiangjun Road Campus

Abstract:

How do climate change and climate mitigation policies affect countries and income groups differently? This seminar introduces quantitative approaches to assessing the distributional impacts of climate change and mitigation pathways, combining historical data analysis with forward-looking scenario simulations using the REMIND–MAgPIE integrated assessment modeling framework.

The presentation will examine how historical climate change has affected income inequality both across and within countries. It will further explore how alternative mitigation pathways influence household consumption and inequality through changes in energy and food prices, factor incomes, and climate-related damages. Finally, the seminar will discuss the potential and limitations of redistributing carbon pricing revenues to mitigate adverse distributional effects.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Jiarui Zhong is a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany. She holds a PhD in Economics from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Her research group focuses on modeling economic activities within integrated assessment models (IAMs) and evaluating their broader socioeconomic implications. Her research interests include the trade impacts of carbon border adjustment policies, the socioeconomic consequences of climate mitigation pathways, and the distributional effects of climate change across income groups.

Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Climate Policy, Energy Policy, and Climate Change Economics, as well as Chinese academic journals such as European Studies, Beijing Cultural Review, and Haipai Economics. She has also translated several books on economic thought and the social market economy into Chinese, including Hans Tietmeyer, Unsettling Transformations, and The Social Market Economy.