EJ Anniversary Session C2: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Slides for this lecture are available here: http://www.fsmevents.com/res/2015/ses...

‘To slow or not to slow’, William Nordhaus’s EJ 1991 paper, was the first economic appraisal of greenhouse gas emissions abatement – this special anniversary session traces its legacy, in particular dynamic modelling of the linkages between economic growth and the climate

Participants and presentations:
Endogenous growth, convexity of damages and climate risk: How Nordhaus’ framework supports deep cuts in carbon emissions
Simon Dietz and Nicholas Stern (LSE)

Climate tipping and economic growth:
Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)

Why finance ministers favor carbon taxes, even if they do not take climate change into account:
Ottmar Edenhofer (Technical University of Berlin)