Gijs van seventer Seminar Series: Worst Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance

  • Starts: 12:45 pm on Friday, November 3, 2017
  • Ends: 1:45 pm on Friday, November 3, 2017
Public policy toward climate and financial risks is often based on a simplistic economics that minimizes or dismisses threats of extreme events. Yet the extremes are what people worry most about. What does it take to create effective responses to worst-case risks, in both climate protection and financial regulation? Frank Ackerman is an environmental economist who has written widely on energy, climate change, and related issues, he is well known for his critiques of overly narrow cost-benefit analyses of environmental protection, among other topics. He has directed studies and reports for clients ranging from Greenpeace to the European Parliament, including many state agencies, international organizations, and leading environmental groups. His books include Climate Change and Global Equity (2014), Climate Economics: The State of the Art (2013), Can We Afford the Future? (2009), and Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (2004). His latest book, Worst Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance, will be available in late 2017. From 1995 to 2007 Dr. Ackerman worked at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE).  From 2007 through 2012 he was at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s U.S. Center, also at Tufts University, where he directed the Climate Economics Group.  Since 2012 he has been a principal economist at Synapse Energy Economics, a public interest-oriented consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2014-2015, he was a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching graduate seminars on Electricity, Economics and the Environment, and Climate Economics and Policy. In 2017, he is also a research fellow at Boston University’s Global Economics Governance Institute, collaborating in research on trade and the environment.
Speaker(s)
Frank Ackerman, PhD Principal Economist Synapse Energy Economics
Event Open To
public
Building
BU Medical School
Room
72 East Concord Street , L210
Show Fees
free
Link:
http://www.bu.edu/sph/about/departments/environmental-health/ehseminars/
Contact Organization
Department of Environmental Health
Contact Name
Jean van Seventer
Information Phone
6176386493
Contact Email
jvsevent@bu.edu
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