"Climate Economics: What Do We Know about Unknown Risks?"
- Starts: 12:00 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
- Ends: 1:00 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
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.
- Speakers:
- Frank Ackerman, Ph.D. Senior Economist, Synapse Energy Economics, Inc.
- Audience:
- public
- Address:
- BU School of Medicine Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street
- Room:
- Room L210
- Fees:
- free
- Registration:
- Dr. Ackerman is expert in the economics of climate change and energy, cost-benefit analysis and regulations, the economic and environmental impacts of global trade liberalization, and economic theory and methods. He was the senior economist and director o
- Contact Organization:
- Department of Environmental Health, BUSPH
- Contact Name:
- Carolyn Weber
- Contact Phone:
- 617-638-5940