"Climate Change and Disasters - Risk and Policy" discussed on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm in Preston

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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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| 700 18th Street, | |
| N.W. | If you wonder whether economics and |
| | technology will collide or collude, you are |
| For non Bank | invited to a discussion between: |
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| The discussion | William |
| will be followed | Nordhaus & Freeman |
| 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 |
| (Embedded | analyzes the optimality of five proposals, |
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| | analysis and will also discuss the economics |
| | of climate-change induced disasters. |
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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 |
| | options for a high carbon future. |
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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
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
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
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Youth at Risk" discussed on Wednesday, September 10 at 12:30 pm in I2-250

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INVITE YOU TO A JOINT LAUNCH OF TWO YOUTH-FOCUSED PUBLICATIONS
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| Youth at Risk | Supporting Youth at Risk |
| in Latin America and the | A Policy Toolkit for |
| Caribbean | Middle-Income Countries |
| Understanding the Causes, | |
| Realizing the Potential | In response to a growing |
| | demand from government clients |
| Young people are often | and partners for advice on how |
| perceived as the source of | to create and implement |
| many problems plaguing the | effective policies for at-risk |
| Latin America and Caribbean | youth, Supporting Youth at |
| (LAC) region today. However | Risk highlights numerous |
| , there is little | policies and strategies that |
| understanding of the | have been effective in |
| extent, nature, or policy | addressing key risk areas for |
| response to these problems. | young people around the world, |
| Youth at Risk attempts to | including: |
| fill this knowledge gap by | Youth unemployment and |
| estimating the size of the | underemployment |
| at-risk youth population in | Early school leaving |
| LAC, measuring the impact | Risky sexual behavior |
| of negative youth behaviors | leading to early |
| on the region's economic | childbearing and HIV/AIDS |
| growth, and identifying a | Crime and violence |
| small set of factors that | Substance abuse |
| are responsible for | |
| problematic behavior. Based | The objective of the Toolkit |
| on this information, the | is to serve as a practical |
| book presents policies and | guide for policy makers in |
| programs that world | middle-income countries?as |
| renowned youth development | well as professionals working |
| experts deem to be the | within the area of youth |
| basis of a quality youth | development?on how to develop |
| development portfolio in | and implement an effective |
| LAC countries and several | policy portfolio to foster |
| strategies to create such a | healthy and positive youth |
| portfolio within a | development. |
| budget-constrained | |
| environment. | |
| | Please click here for more |
| | information. |
| Please click here for more | |
| information and to order | |
| the book. | |
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Wednesday, September 10
12:30 - 2:30 pm
Auditorium I2-250
World Bank I Building
1850 I Street, N.W.
A lunch buffet will be served

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

OPENING REMARKS BY,
Pamela Cox
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Cox is a development economist and has held several management
positions in various countries and regions since joining the World
Bank in 1980. Most recently, she was Director of Strategy and
Operations for the Africa Region, where she oversaw the increase of
Bank lending to the poorest African countries. Ms. Cox also served
as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and
Swaziland. She was Chief of the Country Operations Division in East
Asia, and served as Chief of the Agriculture and Environment
Operations in the same region.

CLOSING REMARKS BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi is Vice President for Human Development at the World
Bank. Before joining the Bank, she worked at the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally.
Ms. Phumaphi also served as Minister for Health in Botswana, where
she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into
action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. She is in the Board
of GAVI and has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on
Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is
a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa and the AAI.

MODERATED BY
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Fiszbein joined the World Bank in 1991 and has held several
positions that include coordinator of the poverty reduction team at
the World Bank Institute, coordinator of the World Bank?s program in
human development for the southern cone countries in Latin America,
Lead Economist in the Human Development Department for Latin America
and the Caribbean, and Adviser to the Bank?s Chief Economist and
senior vice-President for Development Economics. In the latter
position, he coordinated the Bank?s Development Impact Evaluation
initiative. He has published extensively on issues of social
policy, taught at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires, and
was the secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic
Association (LACEA) between 1998 and 2005.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Wendy Cunningham
Lead Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Cunningham is the Coordinator of the Children and Youth (C&Y)
Unit at the World Bank. Before joining C&Y, she was a Senior
Economist in the Human Development Department and Poverty Reduction
and Economic Management Department in the World Bank's Latin America
and Caribbean Region, where she led projects and research in the
areas of social protection and labor markets and worked to develop
the region's agenda for youth development and gender. As a labor
economist, her published works are in the areas of labor market
programs, informal sector employment, gender, and youth development.

Sophie Naudeau
Human Development Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human
Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Naudeau is a Child and Youth Development Specialist. Since
joining the World Bank in 2005, her work has focused on analyzing
the opportunities and challenges that children and youth face in
various regions, developing tools and implementing projects that
respond to the specific needs of this population, and designing
impact evaluations of early childhood programs. Her recent work has
focused on Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique, Morocco, and Cambodia.
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Naudeau was the coordinator for
programs targeting refugee children and youth in post conflict
societies, including Bosnia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.

DISCUSSED BY
Chingboon Lee (TBC)
Sector Leader, Caribbean Country Management Unit, World Bank
Ms. Lee is the Sector Leader for the Human Development program in
the Caribbean Country Management Unit at the World Bank. Prior to
joining the Bank?s Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Ms. Lee?s
work focused on education issues in China and Bangladesh. She also
served as Deputy Resident Representative for the United Nations
Development Program from 1994 ? 1998, and was a teaching and
research fellow at Harvard University.

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
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
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other, publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit:
http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

LUNCH CONVERSATION "Flying Under the Radar: Pentecostalism in South Africa and its Influence on Social and Economic Development", Monday, September 8, 2008, 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, MC13-121, Lunch Provided

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and 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 Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph
Stiglitz, Senator Chuck Hagel, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina. The
InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters
and provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles
published by the World Bank, international organizations, and other
publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit:
http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0