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Climate Change and Disasters ? Risk and Policy
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| Thursday | If climate change induced disasters are to |
| September 11, | be averted, how do we weigh the options on |
| 2008 | global warming policies? There are two basic |
| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | strategies for dealing with carbon emissions |
| Coffee and | from burning of fossil fuels. One is through |
| cookies will be | massive taxes and subsidies to bring |
| served at 1:45 pm | emissions down to a low level. The other |
| | is to let emissions rise freely but have |
| Preston | some technological back-stops prepared in |
| Auditorium | case the consequences of high carbon levels |
| World Bank Main | turn out to be severe. |
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| by a book signing | Dyson |
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| | William Nordhaus is one of the most |
| For more | outstanding economists on climate change |
| information and | whose work has vast influence on global |
| to buy the book, | warming policy, and who describes himself as |
| please click here | ?conservative on some issues, moderate on |
| . | some, and radical on others.? In his most |
| | recent book, A Question of Balance: Weighing |
| | the Options on Global Warming Policies, he |
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| | Freeman Dyson is a renowned physicist with a |
| | strong interest in environmental problems, |
| | including the biological as well as the |
| | climatic effects of carbon dioxide. Mr. |
| | Dyson critically reviewed A Question of |
| | Balance for the New York Review of Books. He |
| | will discuss Mr. Nordhaus? presentation, and |
| | specifically, present his thoughts on the |
| | role of biotechnology and genetic |
| | engineering in developing low cost backstop |
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PRESENTED BY
William Nordhaus
Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University
Mr. Nordhaus is widely regarded as one of the most influential
climate change economists of our times. Since the 1970s, he has
developed seminal economic approaches to global warming, including
the construction of integrated economic and scientific models. Mr.
Nordhaus has served on several committees of the National Academy of
Sciences, which include the Committee on Nuclear and Alternative
Energy Systems, the Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse
Warming, the Committee on National Statistics, the Committee on Data
and Research on Illegal Drugs, and the Committee on the Implications
for Science and Society of Abrupt Climate Change. He has also been a
Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and has
served as the Provost of Yale University. In 2004, he was awarded
the prize of "Distinguished Fellow? by the American Economic
Association. Mr. Nordhaus is the author of many books, among them
Invention, Growth and Welfare, Is Growth Obsolete?, The Efficient
Use of Energy Resources, Reforming Federal Regulation, Managing the
Global Commons, Warming the World, and (joint with Paul Samuelson)
the classic textbook, Economics.
DISCUSSED BY
Freeman Dyson
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Institute of Advances Studies,
Princeton
Mr. Dyson, a path-breaking scientist, is the author of several
books such as Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope,
Infinite in All Directions, Origins of Life. His famous 1999 book,
The Sun, the Genome and the Internet, discusses the question of
whether modern technology could be used to narrow the gap between
rich and poor rather than widen it. Mr. Dyson is a fellow of the
American Physical Society, a member of the US National Academy of
Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
Mr. Sanghi is leading the ongoing World Bank?UN Assessment on the
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
distinguished seminar series designed to contribute ideas by
individuals such as Kenneth Arrow, Freeman Dyson, William Nordhaus,
Richard Posner, Thomas Schelling, John Seo, Martin Weitzman, and
others on selected themes of the World Bank?UN Assessment. The next
event is on September 24, 2008 and will be presented by Daniel
Kahneman (Nobelist, 2002) and Howard Kunreuther (Wharton). For more
information about the Assessment, please contact Mr. Sanghi at
asanghi@worldbank.org.
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About The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR)
GFDRR is a partnership of the International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (ISDR) system to support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action (HFA). The HFA, endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Resolution 60/195, is the primary international
agreement for disaster reduction. One hundred sixty-eight (168)
countries and multilateral organizations including the World Bank
and the United Nations (UN) system participated in the UN World
Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in January
2005. The principal strategic goal of the HFA is to effectively
integrate, in a coherent manner, disaster risk considerations into
sustainable development policies, planning, programming, and
financing at all levels of government.
For more information, visit GFDRR.
About The InfoShop
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serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
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accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
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issues.
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