NASA GISS

New York, NY

"The economics of solar geoengineering"
10:00-11:00 am
Climate intervention meeting

If climate change is due to the "free rider" problem, solar geoengineering is beset with "free driver" properties. The challenge: channel the inevitable in the right direction. Join us for the first solar geoengineering working group meeting of the new year to discuss free driver, green moral hazards, and how to think about the inherent risk-risk tradeoffs, with Gernot Wagner, climate economist at Columbia Business School, founding executive director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, and author, most recently, of Geoengineering: the Gamble.

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