Richard Tol
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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. 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.
Tol has an MSc (1992) in Econometrics and a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in 1997. 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. 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. He regularly participates in studies of the Energy Modeling Forum.
Tol specialises in energy economics and environmental economics, with a particular interest in climate change. He is known for his work on the social cost of carbon and integrated assessment modelling, having developed the FUND model. He is ranked among the Top 500 Economists in the world[1] according to IDEAS/RePEc. 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. The Web of Science lists 93 journal publications, which together have been cited over 700 times, leading to an h-index of 15.
Tol appears regularly in the media, arguing in favour of economically rational climate policy.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8].
