The Climate Futures Initiative in Science, Values and Policy (CFI) will host the online asynchronous workshop “Bridging Gaps of Affluence, Nation and Time” Monday, Aug. 10, through Monday, Aug. 24. Twelve authors will provide works-in-progress in video and/or written form on research that explores and evaluates how institutions, policies and technologies might allow us to deal fairly and effectively with climate change, which has been called a “perfect moral storm” due to... Read more about Bridging Gaps of Affluence, Nation and Time
Delavane Diaz, principal technical leader of Energy Systems and Climate Analysis at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), will present “Decarbonization Through Electrification: Estimating the Potential and Implications,” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Lewis Library, Room 138.
Diaz will discuss how “deep decarbonization” goals such as New Jersey’s 80×50 Energy Master Plan will require fundamental changes beyond the electric-generation sector. One of the main strategies is to shift end-use energy demand away from fossil fuels and...
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...
