Climate Change, Ethics and Risk Workshop

Princeton University

"Prescriptivism, Risk Aversion, and Intertemporal Substitution in Climate Economics" (joint with J. Paul Kelleher)
10:00-11:00, 13 April 2018

Presented at: "Climate Change, Ethics and Risk Workshop", Princeton University Center for Human Values
13-14 April 2018

Schedule:

Friday, April 13
9.00 – 9:45 BREAKFAST & Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Opening remarks
10.00 – 11:00 Gernot Wagner (Harvard University), “Prescriptivism, risk aversion, and intertemporal substitution in climate economics”
11:00 – 12:00 Antony Millner (LSE), “Non-paternalistic social discounting”
12.00 – 1.30 LUNCH
1.30 – 2.30 Aurélie Méjean (CIRED), “Intergenerational equity under catastrophic climate change”
2:30 – 3:30 Noah Scovronick (Princeton University), “The impact of human health 'co-benefits' on global climate policy”
3.30 – 4:00 COFFEE/SNACK BREAK
4.00 – 5.00 Maddalena Ferranna (Princeton University), “Intergenerational equity, risk aversion and the social cost of carbon”
6.30 – DINNER

Saturday, April 14
8.30 – 9.00 BREAKFAST
9.00 – 10.00 Derek Lemoine (University of Arizona), “General Bayesian Learning in Dynamic Stochastic Models: Estimating the Value of Science Policy”
10.00 – 11.00 Blake Francis (Princeton University) “Should the Polluter Pay?”
11.00 – 11.20 BREAK and LUNCH Buffet
11.20 – 12.20 Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University), “If you are an egalitarian, how come you are not a vegan?”
12.20 – 1.30 Closing remarks

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