We are seriously concerned with global climate change, the higher frequency of extreme weather conditions, the rise of sea level, the acidification of the oceans, the salinisation of sweet water in small islands, the dramatic reduction in biodiversity, and ubiquitous pollution. But we are optimist that mitigation is still possible if the world reacts with extreme energy and cohesion.Economics as a science has been reducing the issue of climate change to prices and quantities, interest rate and utility functions, converting health and security issues in tradable commodities. Neoclassical economics with all its empirical and logical flaws risks to provide unsufficient advice to goverments and firms, while neglecting technological and fairness issues.At the same time, economic aspects of any mitigation strategy will be crucial for its success. So we are keen to solicit economists to devise, develop and articulate innovative economic policies and measures to be integrated in effective and fair climate change mitigation efforts at every geographical and industry level.New insights from evolutionary economics, prospect theory, behavioural economics and finance might be coupled with the established body of knowledge developed by sociology and managerial disciplines and with the experience on the terrain of real policymaking.Instead of framing climate change mitigation as a cost, we feel it is a huge opportunity for innovation, profits, employment, wages and improvement of real quality of life.Join us in the International Symposium on "Innovative Economic Policies for Climate Change Mitigation" to be held on the 25th-26th June 2009 near Rome (Italy) and contribute to the subsequent book we would like to submit to national and international authorities before the Copenhagen summit, where the new Treaty will be signed and whose recomendations could be implemented in the following months and years.(source: www.economicswebinstitute.org)