Confronting Climate Change: Economics, Fairness, and Political Feasibility

The Department of Economics Distinguished Lecture Series brings some of the world’s top economists to Calgary to lecture on an important public policy topic to a mixed audience of undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty, and alumni. Its purpose is to enrich the undergraduate and graduate experience at the University of Calgary, raise the Department’s international profile, and provide thought provoking lectures to the University community. For more information, please visit: http://econ.ucalgary.ca/research/distinguished-lecture-series ABSTRACT: How can climate change policies be designed to be not only environmentally effective but also cost-effective and fair? And how can they be made more acceptable politically? Lawrence Goulder’s talk will explore how these different and often competing goals can be approached. While acknowledging that no perfect approach exists, he will suggest some potentially promising directions, drawing from academic research and recent climate-policy experience at the national and international levels. In considering these issues he will explore the potential roles for carbon taxes, cap and trade, performance standards, and direct technology promotion. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center for Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis. He is also the Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford, a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and, a University Fellow of Resources for the Future.

Location:

MacEwan Ballroom

Speaker:

Prof. Lawrence Goulder, Stanford University

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/confronting-climate-change-economics-fairness-and-political-feasibility