Cameron Hepburn

Australian economist

Cameron Hepburn

Born|

Australia

Nationality| Australian
Academic career
Institution| University of Oxford
Field|

* Environmental Economics

Alma mater|

* University of Melbourne
* University of Oxford

Cameron Hepburn is the former Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford,[1] and formerly a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[2] He is also the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.[3][4]

## Education[edit]

Hepburn attended Camberwell Grammar School and received his undergraduate education in law and engineering at the University of Melbourne in Australia and his master's degree and doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.[5]

## Career[edit]

Hepburn was an advisor to the former role of UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.[6] He used to be part of the Academic Panel within the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.[6] Hepburn advised the UN and the OECD on environmental policy, energy and resources.[7] He has also worked at Shell, Mallesons, and McKinsey & Company.[6]

His business endeavours have included cofounding Climate Bridge, a transnational developer of clean energy projects, as well as Vivid Economics in 2006, and environment and energy consultancy firm. Then in 2013 he cofounded Aurora Energy Research.[8] His role in cofounding these clean energy companies led in part to receiving the 2015 Advance Global Australian Award in Clean Energy.[9] Vivid Economics was acquired by McKinsey & Company in 2021.[10] He was the director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment[11] the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and Co-Director of the Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative.[12]

## Research[edit]

Hepburn was a research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and his research interests include Environmental economics; Climate change economics; Environmental policy; Carbon markets and emissions trading; Sustainability; Behavioural economics"[13] He has written publications in a range of disciplines,[1] including economics, public policy, law, engineering, philosophy, and biology.[8] This research has been presented at TEDx in Vienna[14] and in London.[15]

Hepburn is an expert on economically-informed global environmental policy, especially government responses to climate change, in both academic journals[16] and national news periodicals.[17] This has included novel ideas to find “sensitive intervention points” in his role chairing the UK Committee on Climate Change Policy Advisory Group,[18] and to reduce emissions influencing consumers away from climate change drivers, such as introducing a meat tax.[19] His work on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has led him to take on positions such as the Principal Investigator of the Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub.[20] The institution is funded by the UK government as a part of its mission to reduce climate change. [21]

## Selected publications[edit]

* Kruitwagen, L.; Story, K. T.; Friedrich, J.; Byers, L.; Skillman, S.; Hepburn, C. (28 October 2021). "A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units". Nature. 598 (7882): 604–610. Bibcode:2021Natur.598..604K. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03957-7. PMID 34707304. S2CID 240071854.
* Hepburn, Cameron; O’Callaghan, Brian; Stern, Nicholas; Stiglitz, Joseph; Zenghelis, Dimitri (28 September 2020). "Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?" (PDF). Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 36 (Supplement_1): S359–S381. doi:10.1093/oxrep/graa015.
* Hepburn, Cameron; Stern, Nicholas; Stiglitz, Joseph E. (August 2020). "'Carbon pricing' special issue in the European economic review". European Economic Review. 127: 103440. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103440. PMC 7180378. PMID 32336763.
* Hepburn, Cameron; Adlen, Ella; Beddington, John; Carter, Emily A.; Fuss, Sabine; Mac Dowell, Niall; Minx, Jan C.; Smith, Pete; Williams, Charlotte K. (7 November 2019). "The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal". Nature. 575 (7781): 87–97. Bibcode:2019Natur.575...87H. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1681-6. hdl:10044/1/75208. PMID 31695213. S2CID 207911705.
* Farmer, J. D.; Hepburn, C.; Ives, M. C.; Hale, T.; Wetzer, T.; Mealy, P.; Rafaty, R.; Srivastav, S.; Way, R. (12 April 2019). "Sensitive intervention points in the post-carbon transition". Science. 364 (6436): 132–134. Bibcode:2019Sci...364..132F. doi:10.1126/science.aaw7287. PMID 30975879. S2CID 109941175.
* Hamilton, Kirk; Hepburn, Cameron, eds. (2017). National Wealth: What is Missing, Why it Matters. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803720.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-880372-0.
* Hepburn, Cameron; Farmer, J. Doyne (2020). "Less precision, more truth: Uncertainty in climate economics and macroprudential policy". Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change. doi:10.4337/9780857939067.00026. ISBN 978-0-85793-906-7. S2CID 225799433.
* Helm, Dieter; Hepburn, Cameron, eds. (2014). Nature in the Balance. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676880.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-967688-0.
* Hepburn, Cameron J.; Quah, John K.-H.; Ritz, Robert A. (February 2013). "Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations". Journal of Public Economics. 98: 85–99. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.10.004.
* Helm, Dieter; Hepburn, Cameron, eds. (2009). The Economics and Politics of Climate Change. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199573288.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-957328-8.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Oxford University announces the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics". www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
2. ^ "Biography". cameronhepburn.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
3. ^ "People Professor Cameron Hepburn". oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
4. ^ "Programmes - Economics of Sustainability". inet.ox.ac.uk/. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
5. ^ "Cameron Hepburn Professorial Research Fellow". lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
6. ^ a b c "People Professor Cameron Hepburn Director, Economics of Sustainability, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School". oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
7. ^ "Cameron Hepburn | Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Oxford Institute for Energy Studies". oxfordenergy.org. 2014. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
8. ^ a b "Cameron Hepburn". Climate Leadership Council. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
9. ^ Advance (29 July 2015). "Winners of 2015 Advance Global Australian Awards announced". Manufacturers' Monthly. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
10. ^ "McKinsey acquires sustainability consultancy Vivid Economics". www.consultancy.uk. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
11. ^ Vetter, David. "Flight-Free Climate Conference Warns: 'We Are Not Acting Like This Is An Emergency'". Forbes. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
12. ^ "Cameron Hepburn". 31 July 2018.
13. ^ "Cameron Hepburn". lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
14. ^ Hepburn, Cameron (6 December 2019), Runaway solutions for climate change | Cameron Hepburn | TEDxVienna, retrieved 12 June 2023
15. ^ "How solving the climate crisis will make us richer | Cameron Hepburn | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool". YouTube.
16. ^ Victor, David G.; Akimoto, Keigo; Kaya, Yoichi; Yamaguchi, Mitsutsune; Cullenward, Danny; Hepburn, Cameron (August 2017). "Prove Paris was more than paper promises". Nature. 548 (7665): 25–27. Bibcode:2017Natur.548...25V. doi:10.1038/548025a. PMID 28770856. S2CID 4467912.
17. ^ "Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK". The Guardian. 24 May 2021. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
18. ^ https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CCC-Policy-Advisory-Group-Report-2020-FINAL.pdf
19. ^ https://www.fastcompany.com/90778774/its-time-for-a-meat-tax-heres-how-to-make-it-work
20. ^ "Prof Cameron Hepburn".
21. ^ "UK invests over £30m in large-scale greenhouse gas removal". 24 May 2021.

## External links[edit]

* Personal website
* Oxford Martin School profile

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