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THE POLICY OF CLIMATE CHANGE


Week 5, Wednesday September 30




https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/09/16/climate-change-is-making-it-harder-to-reduce-poverty-in-malawi

This time we will study the effects of CC on human populations, in particular on:
        - Coastal protection
        - Sea level effects on communities and nations
        - Climate refugees
        - Effects on already vulnerable regions


We will go deeper into the policy of CC. There is immense debate about this topic in almost every policy-making meeting. We will study from the largest agreement, like the Paris one, to local strategies to address CC. We will learn from Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino (Research professor at the Basque Center for Climate Change - BC3, Spain). He has been working on the decarbonization of the economies for years trying to come up with ways to make it feasible from a policy perspective.








Readings



Hallegatte S., et al. 2015. Threat Multiplier: Climate Change, Disasters, and Poor People. In: Shock Wave. Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty. World Bank Group. Pp. 79-101. + Hallegatte S., et al. 2015. Bad Seed: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security. In: Shock Wave. Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty. World Bank Group. Pp. 49-77. [canvas] Kaczan, D.J., Orgill-Meyer, J. The impact of climate change on migration: a synthesis of recent empirical insights. Climatic Change 158, 281–300 (2020). [canvas]
·   Another reference on policy to be added by the guest lecturer.



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