Paris 2015 COP21: Cooling The Climate Debate
Thursday 29 October 2015THURSDAY, OCTOBER
29TH
The Economics of climate
change
10:00 Keynote lecture - Internationally Tradable Permits
Versus Internally Imposed Carbon Price (to be confirmed)
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University (United States)
11:00 Analytical Integrated Assessment and Uncertainty
Christian Traeger, University of California, Berkeley (United
States)
11:35 Innovation and the Environment
Philippe Aghion, Collège de France
12:10 Lunch break
13:30 Effective Institutions against Climate Change
Christian Gollier /Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
(TSE, France)
14:15 Design of a Climate Agreement
Scott Barrett, Columbia University (United States)
15:00 On the Green Paradox
Cees Withagen, VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands)
15:30 Climate Policies and Development
Eswaran Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute (India)
16:00 Estimating Climate Damages
Michael Hanemann, University of California, Berkeley (United
States)
16:30 Federal and International Coordination of Climate
Policies
Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future (RFF, United
States)
17:00 Limits to Economics
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
30TH
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
30TH
Casting light on the
negotiations
10:00 Shale Gas in Energy Transition
Katheline Schubert, Université Paris 1 (France)
10:35 Assessment and Comparison of INDCs
Carlo Carraro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
11:10 Climate Change and Poverty
Mariane Faye, World Bank (United States)
11:45 The Development of Renewables
Tomas Kåberger, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
12:15 Climate and the Nuclear Future
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University (United States)
12:50 Lunch break
14:15 Coping with Carbon Leakage
Carolyn Fisher, Resources for the Future (RFF, United
States)
14:50 Session « Finance and Climate »:
_ Hedging Climate Risks with Decarbonized Indices
Patrick Bolton, Columbia University (United States)
_ Evaluating Carbon Risk
Antoine Rose, Crédit Agricole CIB (France)
15:50 (to be confirmed)
16:30 Roundtable
C. Carraro, C. de Perthuis (to be confirmed),
T. Sterner, R. Guesnerie