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"Climate Economics: What Do We Know about Unknown Risks?"
This talk continues of the Department of Environmental Health's seminar series, "Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy." The "known," near-term costs of climate change are becoming more serious, with the growing frequency of extreme weather events, losses in agriculture, and destruction of coastal property. The longer-term, often unknown risks remain even more ominous, challenging conventional ways of thinking about discounting, obligations to the future, responses to low (but nonzero) probabilities of catastrophic losses, and the cost-benefit paradigm for policymaking. In this seminar Dr. Ackerman discusses what a new economic analysis would need to include, in order to respond to the true magnitude of the global climate crisis.
When | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013 |
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Building | BU School of Medicine Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street |
Room | Room L210 |
Contact Name | Carolyn Weber |
Phone | 617-638-5940 |
Contact Email | carolyn5@bu.edu |
Contact Organization | Department of Environmental Health, BUSPH |
Fees | Free |
Speakers | Frank Ackerman, Ph.D. Senior Economist, Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. |