CLIMATE POLICY AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT

The theme Climate Policy and economic assessment is organised in six parallel sessions. Please, find below the timetable of all presentations. (The full program of the Conference is available here)

 

 

Economic analysis of climate change impacts: methods and approaches

23rd September 2013, 10:00 – 11: 30

Chair: C. Carraro – Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia / FEEM / CMCC

 

10:00- 10:20 /Probabilistic economic impacts of climate change in an integrated assessment model framework
L. Drouet – CMCC/ FEEM

 

10:20-10:40 / A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture
R. Mendelson – Yale University

 

10:40-11:00 / Chaos in, chaos out: the effect of deterministic chaos in GCM scenarios on estimates of climate change impacts
E. Massetti – CMCC

 

11:00-11:20 / Ambiguity and optimal learning in climate mitigation scenarios 
F. Creutzig – MCC Berlin

 

11:20-11:30 / Discussion

 

 

Strategies for adaptation and mitigation policies

23rd September 2013, 12:00 – 13: 30

Chair: R. Mendelsohn – Yale University

 

12:00- 12:20 / Putting climate change adaptation into action: an operational approach to implement the European Guidelines on developing adaptation strategies 
C. Giupponi – Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia / CMCC

 

12:20- 12:40 / The dynamic feedback of climate change impacts and catastrophic risk on mitigation and adaptation investments 
F. Bosello – FEEM / CMCC / Università Statale di Milano

 

12:40- 13:00 / Is Geoengineering a viable Option for Dealing with Climate Change? 
M. Tavoni – CMCC

 

13:00- 13:20 / Insurance and Climate Change Adaptation: Field Experiments in Chilika Lagoon, India
A. Sharma – Università diSiena

 

13:20-13:30 / Discussion

 

 

Strategies for adaptation and mitigation policies

23rd September 2013, 14:30 – 16: 00

Chair: M. Tavoni – CMCC 

 

14:30- 14:50 / Guidelines for the implementation of the Regional Adaptation Strategy in Lombardy (RAS) 
D. Ballarin Denti – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente

 

14:50- 15:10 / Beyond stationarity in planning renewables: The CLIM-RUN experience for the Euro-Mediterranean region 
A. Dell’Aquila – ENEA

 

15:10- 15:30 / Eni’s approach to mitigation and adaptation
R. De Filippo – ENI

 

15:30- 15:50 / Climatic Change Impacts on Energy Sectors over Italian Region 
P. Faggian – RSE SpA

 

15:50-16:00 / Discussion

 

 

Air quality and climate change mitigation policies

23rd September 2013, 16:30 – 18: 00

Chair: E. Massetti – FEEM / CMCC

 

16:30- 16:50 / Including air pollutants’ emissions in integrated assessment climate change modelling 
L. Aleluia Reis – CMCC

 

16:50- 17:10 / Synergies and trade-offs between climate change mitigation strategies and air quality policies: the case of wood burning in domestic appliances 
S. Caserini – Politecnico di Milano

 

17:10- 17:30 / Ancillary benefits of climate change policy in China: air pollution impacts on househlod health, adaptation and government-controlled information in Beijing
C. Ravetti – CIES

 

17:30-18:00 / Discussion

 

 

Climate change and urbanization: implications, feedback and evaluation of strategies

24th September 2013, 9:00 – 10: 30

Chair: M. Breil – CMCC

 

9:00- 9:20 / Integrating the human dimension in ecosystem based adaptation to global changes 
C. Giupponi – Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia

 

9:20- 9:40 / Vulnerability of Paris metropolitan area to future heat waves 
A. Lemonsu – CNRM/GAME (Météo-France, CNRS)

 

9:40- 10:00 / The role of climatic variability on cholera spreading in Bangladesh
M. Ciddio – Politecnico di Milano

 

10:00- 10:20 / Albedo Modifications as Global Mitigation and Local Adaptation Strategy in European Cities: A Geographically Explicit Investigation
T. Susca – Hertie School of Governance

 

10:20-10:30 / Discussion

 

 

Economic assessment of climate change impacts

24th September 2013, 11:00 – 12:30

Chair: S. Caserini – Politecnico di Milano 

 

11:00- 11:20 / An indicator-based assessment of vulnerability to climate change in Italian coastal cities
M. Breil – CMCC
 

11:20- 11:40 / Climate change, smoothing with water stock and impact on the agricultural sector in the Po valley (Italy) 

M. Bozzola – CIES

 

11:40- 12:00 / The economics of tropical cyclones under climate change: Incorporating the Impact of Global Hurricane Characteristics and Level of Development
L. Bakkensen – Yale University

 

12:00- 12:20 / Adaptation strategies at river basin district scale: the Po river basin experience
L. Carrera – FEEM / CMCC

 

12:20-12:30 / Discussion