EDF ECONOMICS SEMINAR SERIES 
18 April 2024 – | 4 pm CET
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To stabilize our climate, it’s possible that we might need to use solar geoengineering.  How do we balance the benefits of geoengineering with the risks? How do we ensure cooperative outcomes between all countries?  Join us for a seminar with Columbia Business School Professor, Gernot Wagner and the Director of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Massimo Tavoni, for a discussion of the economics of solar geoengineering.

Speakers

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School, co-author of Climate Shock and author of Geoengineering: the Gamble. His research, teaching, and writing focus on climate risks and climate policy.  Prior to joining Columbia as senior lecturer and serving as faculty director of the Climate Knowledge Initiative, Gernot taught at NYU, Harvard, and Columbia. He was the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2016 – 2019), and served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund (2008 – 2016), most recently as lead senior economist (2014 – 2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015 – 2016). Before EDF, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf and New York and wrote for the Financial Times leader writer team in London. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute, and is a CESifo Research Network Fellow, a Faculty Affiliate at the Columbia Center for Environmental Economics and Policy, a Member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a Coordinating Lead Author of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change, and he serves on the board of CarbonPlan.org.

Massimo Tavoni is a Professor of climate change economics at Politecnico di Milano, and director of the European Institute on the Economy and the Environment (EIEE), a partnership between Resources for the Future and the Fondazione CMCC. He coordinated the climate programme at FEEM, has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, and a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University. He does research in climate change, using both computational models and empirical approaches inspired by behavioural sciences. He was a lead author of the IPCC (5th and 6th assessment reports), co-directed the International Energy Workshop and was deputy editor for the journal ‘Climatic Change’.  He has been awarded two grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and led several EU-funded projects. He gas advised several international institutions on climate change policy, including the OECD, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank.

ORGANIZED BY
Environmental Defense Fund