Preliminary Program

08.45

Welcome

09.00 – 09.45

The potential of high-resolution climate models in tackling climate change uncertainty (PDF, 58 KB)

Christoph Schär (ETHZ)

09.45 – 10.30

Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition: The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

David Hémous (UZH)

10.30 – 10.45

Coffee break

10.45 – 11.30

Uncertainties in climate models - from Earth System Models to (simple) climate emulators (PDF, 78 KB)

Doris Folini (ETHZ)

11.30 – 12.15

ACE - Analytic Climace Economy (with Temerature and Uncertainty) (PDF, 1067 KB)

Christian Traeger
(University of Oslo)

12.15 – 13.45

Lunch break

13.45 – 14.30

Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win

Larry Kotlikoff
(Boston University)

14.30 – 15.15

Insurance in a world of climate extremes (PDF, 77 KB)

Michael Gloor, Swiss Re

15.15 - 15.30

Coffee break

15.30 – 16.15

Adaptation to rare natural disasters and global sensitivity analysis in a dynamic stochastic economy

Takafumi Usui (UZH)

16.15 – 17.00

The CH2018 Swiss Climate Scenarios: Inherent uncertainties and their communication (PDF, 78 KB)

Sven Kotlarski, MeteoSwiss