Location:
By invitation only
Overview
Many world regions face increasing pressures from global and regional changes in climate, population growth, urban-area expansion, and the socio-economic impacts of fossil-based development. Human interference in the global climate system contributes significantly to changes in regional and local extreme weather and climate patterns. This webinar focuses on “physical risks” that are related to damage from climate events such as floods, droughts, wind and extreme temperatures, as well as “transition risks” that arise from shifts in the political, technological, social and economic landscape that are likely to occur during the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Agenda
10:00am - 10:05am
Opening Remarks
10:05am - 10:15am
Introduction and Framing
TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
Director, Center for Global Change Science (CGCS);
10:15am - 10:35am
Assessing Physical Risks
Deputy Director for Science Research, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
10:35am - 11:05am
Assessing Transition Risks
Deputy Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Senior Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)
Director, Energy at Scale Center
11:05am - 11:55am
Panel Discussion with Q&A
Moderator:
Professor of Management (Emeritus), Sloan School of Management
Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis
Deputy Director for Science Research, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Deputy Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Senior Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)
Director, Energy at Scale Center
Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
11:55am - 12:00pm
Closing Remarks
Photo credit: Flickr/klem@s