Richard S. J. Tol (b. 1969, Hoorn, the Netherlands) is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, where he is responsible for the research areas energy and environment. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hoorn ( West Frisian: Hoorn) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Noord Holland. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI is a Think tank in Dublin, Ireland. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world He is also the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA, USA), and an Associate of the Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University and Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Science, Hamburg, Germany. The economics of global warming refers to the projected size and distribution of the economic costs and benefits of Global warming, and to the economic The VU University Amsterdam (in Dutch Vrije Universiteit, literal translation is "Free University" is a University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United The University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg is a University in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.
Tol has an MSc (1992) in Econometrics and a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in 1997. Econometrics is concerned with the tasks of developing and applying Quantitative or Statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The VU University Amsterdam (in Dutch Vrije Universiteit, literal translation is "Free University" is a University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tol is one of the authors (contributing, lead, principal, and convening) of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 with Al Gore. The Nobel Peace Prize ( Swedish, Danish and Nobels fredspris is one of five Nobel Prizes Bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Albert Arnold Gore Jr (born March 31 1948 is an American environmental Activist, author Businessperson, former Politician, and former He is an author and editor of the UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies and an editor of Energy Economics. The UN Environment Programme (or UNEP) coordinates United Nations environmental activities assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies Energy Economics is a Scientific journal published by Elsevier. He regularly participates in studies of the Energy Modeling Forum. The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF is a structured forum for discussing important issue in energy and the environment
Tol specialises in energy economics and environmental economics, with a particular interest in climate change. Energy economics is a broad scientific subject area which includes topics related to supply and use of Energy in societies. Environmental economics is a subfield of Economics concerned with environmental issues Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences He is known for his work on the social cost of carbon and integrated assessment modelling, having developed the FUND model. A carbon tax is an environmental Tax on emissions of Carbon dioxide and other Greenhouse gases It is an example of a pollution tax. Integrated assessment modelling is a type of Scientific modelling that is increasingly common in the environmental sciences and environmental policy analysis He is ranked among the Top 500 Economists in the world[1] according to IDEAS/RePEc. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc is a collaborative effort of hundreds of Volunteers in 57 countries to enhance the dissemination of Research in Economics He is a GTAP Research Fellow "in recognition of his innovative applications of the GTAP Data Base in the field of environmental economics", partly for his work on virtual water. GTAP ( Global Trade Analysis Project) is a global network of researchers (mostly from universities international organizations or the economic ministries of governments who Virtual water (also known as embedded water, embodied water, or hidden water) refers in the context of trade to the water used in the production of a The Web of Science lists 93 journal publications, which together have been cited over 700 times, leading to an h-index of 15. Web of Science is an Online academic database provided by Thomson Scientific. The h-index is an index that quantifies both the actual scientific productivity and the apparent scientific impact of a scientist
Tol appears regularly in the media, arguing in favour of economically rational climate policy. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8].
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