Elke U. Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Robert O. Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus. Senior Scholar
Please join the Climate Futures Initiative in Science, Values, and Policy on Wednesday, September 25, for “Making Catastrophe Insurance Decisions When the Science Is Uncertain,” presented by Richard Bradley, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values. Professor Bradley’s talk will be held at 4:30 p.m., in...
David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He co-develops the integrated assessment model FUND that is used widely in academic research and in policy analysis. His research has appeared in Science, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and other academic journals. He contributed a background research paper to the Stern Review and has advised numerous organizations (including US EPA and the Canadian National Round Table on...
Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha will discuss whether past emissions are relevant when allocating the remaining global carbon budget between nations. People in high-emitting countries have legitimate expectations to continue their ways of life. The highly unequal levels of past emissions also should matter regarding how they benefit and harm living and future people. Meyer and Sanklecha argue that when one claims that the inequality of past emissions are relevant to determining future allocation, one also should accept the expectations of individuals in historically high-emitting...
The transboundary nature of climate change is such that those populations who suffer the most climate harm are not those that contribute the most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This suggests that international compensatory transfers could be in order. The talk will describe how the tension between the principles of...
