Description:
The average planet temperatures have been rising for over one hundred years. This is the reason why we are increasingly facing the disastrous effects caused by extreme meteorological and climatic events, such as heat waves, torrential rains, hurricanes or unusually severe or prolonged droughts. Climate change control is therefore one of the most urgent economic (and ethical) issues that our society has to deal with. Can it still be done? How? The conference intends to answer these questions in a debate on the key topics and most important criticalities. In particular, by involving a large number of experts, the event will analyze different aspects of the problem, starting from the scenarios of temperature increase and the consequent impacts on the areas at risk, and then outlining the solutions at global and national levels. The conference will be an occasion for reflection and discussion in advance of the upcoming UN Paris Climate Conference aimed at finding a new global agreement for emissions reduction and impacts management.

Working language: Italian

Introduced by
Prof Carlo Carraro
Professor Carlo Carraro is the Director of ICCG.

He is a Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been President of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005 to 2008. In 2008, he has been elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has been re-elected in 2015 for a second term. He is also Scientific Director of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Executive Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) and Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG).

Carlo Carraro is Co-Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Advisory Committee and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), the Institute for Economic Research (Ifo), Munich, and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin. He is research fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London, and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies), Munich, and Associate Research Fellow, CEPS (Center of Economic Policy Studies), Bruxelles.

He is the Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and belongs to the editorial board of numerous academic journals. He published more than 30 books and more than 200 articles on several economic, energy and environmental issues. His blog is www.carlocarraro.org.

In 2013 he has been named Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana on the initiative of the President of Italy.