iSEE Congress 2017

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Building Resilience to Climate Change
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)
18-20 September 2017
Alice Campbell Alumni Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Solar Geoengineering as Part of an Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio?”

In the long chain from greenhouse gas emission to climatic impacts, only mitigation tackles the root cause. Carbon geoengineering breaks the link between emissions and concentrations. Solar geoengineering breaks the link between concentrations and temperatures. Adaptation breaks the link between temperature and damages. Solar geoengineering is by far the most controversial such intervention. What makes it so? In particular, what is its interaction with mitigating emissions in the first place, and how does it matter?

[Talk cancelled, ironically, at least in part, due to climate change.]

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Full agenda:

Monday, Sept. 18

5-5:15 p.m. — Welcome

5:15-6:30 p.m. — Keynote Address

Moderator Evan H. DeLucia, Baum Family Director of iSEE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

6:30-7:15 p.m. — Reception and Student Poster Presentations

7:30-9 p.m. — Dinner by Invitation

 

Tuesday, Sept. 19

8-8:30 a.m. — Registration

8:30-8:45 a.m. — Opening Remarks

8:45-10:15 a.m. — Session I: “Regional Climate Effects: Building Resilience”

Moderator Lisa Ainsworth, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:15-10:30 a.m. — Coffee Break

10:30 a.m.-noon — Session II: “Vulnerability of Agriculture and Ecosystems to Climate Change”

Moderator Carla Cáceres, Director of School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Noon-1:30 p.m. — Lunch and Keynote Address          

Moderator Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Langan Professorial Scholar of Environmental Humanities of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

1:30-3 p.m. — Session III: “Land Use and Ecosystem Impacts of Climate Change”

Moderator Jeffrey Brawn, Head of Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3-3:15 p.m. — Coffee Break

3:15-5 p.m. — Session IV: “Adapting to Climate Change”

Moderator Sarah Taylor Lovell, Associate Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5-6 p.m. — Reception and Student Poster Presentations

6:30 p.m. — Dinner by Invitation and Performance by Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Wednesday, Sept. 20

8 a.m. — Registration

8-9 a.m. — Session V: “The Human Impacts of Climate Change: Causes and Solutions”

Moderator Pradeep Dhillon, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

9-10:15 a.m. — Session VI: “Economic and Social Vulnerabilities to Climate Change”

Moderator Ben Crost, Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:15-10:30 a.m. — Coffee Break

10:30 a.m.-noon — Session VII: “Panel on Public-Private Actions to Adapt to Climate Change”

Moderator Madhu Khanna, ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Noon-1:30 p.m. — Lunch and Keynote Address

Moderator Don Fullerton, Gutgsell Professor of Finance and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:30 p.m. — Closing Remarks

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