Evidence to Action: Achieving the Net-Zero Targets | 11th Annual JRCPPF Conference

Evidence to Action
Date & Time Feb 25 2022 9:45 AM - 2:30 PM
Location VIRTUAL (ZOOM Webinar) (external link)
Topics Climate Change, Environment, Energy Finance, Fiscal and Monetary Policy Science, Technology, Innovation
Department Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE)
Speaker(s)
Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Barbara Buchner Barbara Buchner(link is external), Global Managing Director; Executive Director for Climate Finance, Climate Policy Initiative
Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required
Link Conference Details (external link)

Climate change has emerged as the defining issue of the twenty-first century, a root cause of social and economic upheavals that will affect multiple generations. In order to meet the 1.5°C global warming target set by the Paris Agreement and minimize the impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions should reach net zero by 2050. What will it take for us to stabilize and reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere? This conference will explore the science behind the net-zero goals, optimal pathways to achieving the targets, the political and behavioral constraints, and the role of markets. The conference will include presentations by leading climate scientists, economists, and financial industry experts.

Co-sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance, (external link) the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment, (external link) the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, (external link) and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. (external link)

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom webinar.

Registration Open ! (external link)                                      Conference Details (external link)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 | 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM (EST)

3:10 - 3:15 PM | Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Atif Mian, (external link) JRCPPF Director & John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance

3:20 - 4:30 PM | Session 1: Why Net Zero 2050?

  • Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim (external link), Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Statistics, IPCC and University Putra (Malaysia)
  • Kris Ebi (external link), Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington
  • Leon Clarke (external link), Research Professor; Acting Director of the Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland
  • Detlef Van Vuuren (external link), Professor in Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change, Utrecht University; Senior Researcher, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
  • Moderator: Michael Oppenheimer (external link), Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute; Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), Princeton University

4:40 - 5:30 PM | KEYNOTE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 | 9:40 AM - 2:30 PM (EST)

9:40 - 9:45 AM | Welcome/Introduction 

9:45 - 10:55 AM | Session 2: How do we reach the 2050 targets?

11:00 AM - 12:10 PM | Session 3: How do we change behaviors and attitudes to support the transition to a                                                 carbon-neutral society?

12:20 - 1:10 PM | KEYNOTE

  • Managing Climate Change-Related Financial Risk
  • Patrick Bolton (external link), Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
  • Moderator: Denise Mauzerall (external link), Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs, Princeton University   

1:20 - 2:30 PM | How can we leverage markets to achieve the Net-Zero 2050 targets?

2:30 PM | Closing Remarks

(All times are EST.)