You're Invited: Raising the Heat
Join David, Ed and Dr. Michael Greenstone for a live webinar discussion of the projected health costs of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the broader economy.
Global average temperatures continue to rise above pre-industrial levels. In March of this year the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45 °Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline. It was also the warmest ten-year period on record. The toll on public health from extreme heat is likely to be one of the largest costs of climate change.
- What are the relationships between temperature change and mortality?
- What impact will temperature have on public health generally, and how much will it cost?
- Where are the impacts likely to be the highest?
- And how can public policy bring down these risks?
Register to join the webinar discussion and live recording of Season 6, Episode 4 of Energy vs Climate.
About Our Guest:
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He also serves as co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-disciplinary collaboration of researchers working to quantify the long-term impacts of climate change. Dr. Greenstone's research focuses on estimating the costs and benefits of societies’ energy and environmental choices.
About Your EvC Co-Hosts:
David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.
Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.
Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.
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