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Next Friday we have four sessions and a lunchtime keynote by US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), U.S. leader on climate change. Come in person or there will also be a live webcast; the event will be archived at this site: https://watson.brown.edu/events/2019/americas-climate-change-future-housing-markets-stranded-assets-and-entrenched-interests America's Climate Change Future: Housing Markets, Stranded Assets, and Entrenched Interests February 1st, 2019 Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA A one-day mini-conference, co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Rhodes Center, and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, and the Office of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Description: The Rhodes Center for International Economics, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and the Office of the President are pleased to announce a one day conference on the economic and political consequences of climate change. The conference focuses on three key areas. First, the economics of rising sea levels for real coastal estate markets, which comprise a large portion of US housing market growth and hence personal wealth. Second, the economics of ‘stranded carbon assets.’ That is, the raw materials and financial assets tied up in fossil fuels and other greenhouse gas emitting activities that are worth a lot today, but whose values could collapse in the future as climate change demands the curtailment of such activities. The third is the organized politics of climate denial: who are the agents and institutions behind scientific disinformation and how can such a politics best be countered? A lunchtime keynote speech will be given by Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Lunch will be provided for participants. 8:30am: Registration, Coffee and pastries (Watson Institute Joukowsky Forum lobby) 9:00am: Welcome by Mark Blyth, Timmons Roberts, President Christina Paxson and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Session 1: 9:30-10:45: Coastal properties and climate change Presider/discussant: Curt Spalding (Brown) Lint Barrage (Brown) “Flood risks and coastal property values: going under water?” Matthew Gibson (Williams) "Climate change and flood risk: Evidence from New York real estate <https://a7ec521b-a-1e4fe605-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/williams.edu/gibson/working-papers/Gibson_Mullins_Hill_NYCfloodrisk.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cqmNLLAYn0PpR1qQoWBTm9rUXk3j9gRoytRhVqI_vcjHt31SXzY7ZWIEx01MY6z9FPMjhj3Y9YmGbmlmXJeU2tIu6o8hNslLHPGukkyeA9YwBKp73B7On7K-LbyKzb-jKAvEo880weX6YbycD9fRQ4OPo0tAGbjy4xfFcVv_F9Ysk6gi6kpHmUWZ5zbglEHFiijeduGlwYv3_coroFXmtBTQ-1WN_19QbwE5SGOH7ho9iFAPLmYpTdwejrpRn8VnEWmpiZV&attredirects=0> " Stephie Fried (Arizona State) “Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation <https://sites.google.com/site/stephiedfried/paperv15.pdf?attredirects=0>” 10:45-11:00: Coffee Session 2: 11:00-12:15: Carbon bubbles and climate futures Presider/discussant: Debbie Gordon (Brown) Joe Aldy (Harvard) “Focal Carbon Prices” Marcelo Ochoa (Federal Reserve Board) "Price of Long-Run Temperature Shifts in Capital Markets <https://www.nber.org/papers/w22529>" Armon Rezai (Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna) “Stranded assets in fossil fuel industries and the capitalization of climate risks” 12:30-1:30: Lunch: Keynote address by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse “All this risk: Why are we unable to act?” Session 3: 1:45-3:15: Institutional dynamics of climate action and inaction Presider: Timmons Roberts (Brown) Robert Brulle (Brown): “Organized efforts against climate action” Loredana Loy (Cornell): “Channeling the Brand: the Tea Party Movement and Climate Change Policy” Justin Farrell (Yale): “Climate Change Countermovement Organizations and Media Attention in the U.S.” Kerry Ard (Ohio State): “Public opinion on climate and Congressional voting” Discussant: Won Ha (Energy Foundation) 3:15-3:30: Coffee Session 4: 3:30-4:45: Pushing against climate denial and defending science Moderator: Mark Blyth (Brown) Initial paper/presentation for discussion: “Evidence-based Solutions to Combat Scientific Misinformation,” by Justin Farrell, Robert Brulle and Kathryn McConnell (Yale and Brown) Panelists: Kert Davies (Climate Investigation Center) Timmons Roberts (Brown) Kerry Ard (Ohio State) 5:00-6:00 Reception -- Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology Director, the Climate and Development Lab www.climatedevlab.brown.edu Brown University https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jr17 Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/experts/robertst -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
