Solar Geoengineering Research Reading Group

Date: 

Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University Center for the Environment Library, 4th floor

"Discussion of Index-Based Insurance for Solar Geoengineering."

Speaker:

Joshua Horton, Research Director, Geoengineering, Science Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Lizzie Burns
lburns@g.harvard.edu

Chair:

David Keith, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Climate Engineering. Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

This discussion will consider the potential role of index-based insurance as a form of compensation for damages from solar geoengineering deployment, in light of problems associated with legal liability in the context of climate governance.

Lunch provided.