Date:
Location:
"A Solar Geoengineering and Global Income Inequality Paradox"
Speaker:
Katherine Ricke, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Contact:
Amy Chang
acchang@seas.harvard.edu
Lunch is provided with RSVP to acchang@seas.harvard.edu.
Chair:
David Keith, Faculty Associate. Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Abstract:
Exploring heterogeneity in the economic impacts of solar geoengineering is a fundamental step towards understanding the risk tradeoff associated with a geoengineering option. To evaluate the impacts of solar geoengineering and greenhouse gas-driven climate change on equal terms, we apply macroeconomic impact models that have been widely applied to climate change impacts assessment. Consistent reduction in inter-country inequality can inform discussions of the distribution of impacts of solar geoengineering, a topic of concern in geoengineering ethics and governance debates.
