PA54A:
Governing Medium- to Long-Term Climate Risks: What Tools Do We Have? II

Session ID#: 5592

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
Primary Convener:  Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Co-Convener:  Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PA54A-01
Focusing Events and Constrains on Policy Addressing Long-Term Climate Change Risks (8560)
Kristin O'Donovan, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
PA54A-02
Near-Term Actions to Address Long-Term Climate Risk (Invited) (11894)
Robert J Lempert, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States
PA54A-04
Governing Long-Term Risks in Radioactive Waste Management: Reversibility and Knowledge Transfer Across Generations (8552)
Markku Lehtonen, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom
PA54A-05
The American Climate Prospectus: a risk-centered analysis of the economic impacts of climate change (30534)
Amir Jina1, Trevor Houser2, Solomon M Hsiang3, Robert E Kopp4, Michael Delgado2, Kate Larsen5, Shashank Mohan5, DJ Rasmussen5, James Rising6, Paul S Wilson7 and Robert Muir-Wood7, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Rhodium Group, Oakland, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (5)Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States, (6)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, (7)Risk Management Solutions, London, United Kingdom
PA54A-06
Beyond Quarterly Earnings: Preparing the Business Community for Long-term Climate Risks (12951)
Christina Carlson, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Gretchen T Goldman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States
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