Date:
Location:
"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.