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.]
More about iSEE Congress 2017.
Full agenda:
Monday, Sept. 18
5-5:15 p.m. — Welcome
- Robert J. Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5:15-6:30 p.m. — Keynote Address
Moderator Evan H. DeLucia, Baum Family Director of iSEE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- John Holdren, Former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy — “The Case for Investing in Climate Change Resilience: Insights from Science, Engineering, and Economics”
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
- Peter Schiffer, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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
- Donald Wuebbles, Preble Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “The Climate Science Special Report: An Assessment of the Science of Climate Change”
- Thomas W. Hertel, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University — “Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change: An Economic Perspective”
- Kaiyu Guan, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Impact and Adaptation of Agroecosystems to Climate Change in the U.S. Corn Belt”
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
- Donald Ort, Emerson Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “More than Taking the Heat”
- Maximilian Auffhammer, Pardee Professor of Sustainable Development, University of California Berkeley — “Regional Crop Diversity and Weather Shocks in India”
- Amy W. Ando, Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Conservation Planning in the Face of Climate Change”
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
- Justin Gillis, Global Climate Change Journalist and Author — “Climate Change: Where Do We Stand in 2017?”
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
- Atul Jain, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Interactive and Cumulative Effects of Climate and Land-use Changes on Terrestrial Ecosystems”
- Daniel P. Schrag, Director of Center for the Environment and Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard University — “The Timescale of Climate Change Impacts on Land and Ocean”
- Brian Allan, Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Potential Consequences of Climate Change for Infectious Disease Dynamics”
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
- Mark Rosegrant, Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute — “Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Adaptation and Mitigation Policies to 2050”
- Gernot Wagner, Research Associate in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University — “Solar Geoengineering as Adaptation?”
- Arun Agrawal, Dana Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan — Title “Everyday Adaptations to Climate Risks: How Well Do Climate Policies Take into Account What People Do?”
- Praveen Kumar, Lovell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Role of Technology in Adaptation to Climate Change”
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
- Julian Reif, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Air Pollution, Health, and Medical Spending”
- Christopher Preston, Professor of Philosophy, University of Montana — “Climate Justice and Community: A Care Approach to Impacts Identification”
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
- Robin Leichenko, Professor and Chair of Geography, Rutgers University — “Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Coastal Regions: Opportunities and Challenges for Building Resilience”
- Jesse Ribot, Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science and Director of Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Cause and Blame in the Anthropocene: Explaining Migration under a Changing Sky”
- Sandy Dall’erba, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — “Measuring the Economic Impact of Climate Change: Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges”
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
- Bill Northcott, Chief Innovation Officer, Agrible Inc.
- Dion McBay, Vice President of Global Sustainable Development, Monsanto Co.
- Stephen Smith, Technology Transfer Leader, Dow AgroSciences
- Molly Woloszyn, Extension Climate Specialist, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and Midwestern Regional Climate Center
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
- Matthew E. Kahn, Professor of Economics and Spatial Science, University of Southern California — “A Microeconomic Perspective on the Adaptation Challenge”
1:30 p.m. — Closing Remarks
- Evan H. DeLucia, Baum Family Director of iSEE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign