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...
The idea of the geological anthropocene has gained enormous popularity, but the scientific claim that we are in a new epoch calls for serious and widespread questioning. In addition to the epistemological issues there are serious ethical, pedagogic and cultural implications in declaring a new epoch. Cuomo will consider some of these implications and argue that, rather than accepting the idea of a new epoch, we might embrace the challenges of truly supporting Holocene-associated forms of health and resiliency. Read more about Against the Idea of New Epoch: Who is the "Anthro" in the Anthropocene, Chris Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Georgia
Lunch will be served at noon, in Guyot 100. The talk will begin at 12:30p.m.
Among the potential harms of a warmer Earth are its health impacts, as temperatures in some regions advance beyond the human body’s ability to effectively regulate heat, leading to stroke or death. In this paper, we provide the first econometric evidence on the infant and child mortality effects of extreme heat and humidity in the developing world. We diverge from the prior economics literature in utilizing a humidity-indexed measure of temperature, “wet bulb temperature,” which...
ABSTRACT: This lecture defends two main theses: (I) all decisions by current generations about how ambitious to make our climate mitigation constitute decisions about how much risk to allow future generations to bear; and (II) current decisions to settle for less ambitious mitigation constitute morally unjustified transfers of risk from us to them. Any gains through savings from less ambitious...
