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On the Economics of Framing Climate Policy: Pricing Carbon and the (Minimal) Value Added of Updating Economic Damage Estimates and Other Random Thoughts

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | 10:30 am
Gary Yohe, Professor and Vice-chair Gary Yohe, Professor and Vice-chair
Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
National Climate Assessment

 

Gary W. Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University.   Most of his work has focused attention on the mitigation and adaptation/impacts sides of the climate issue.  Involved since the early 1990’s with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that received a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, he served as a Lead Author for four different chapters in the Third Assessment Report that was published in 2001 and as Convening Lead Author for the last chapter of the contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report that was published in 2007.  In that Assessment, he also worked with the Core Writing Team to prepare the overall Synthesis Report.  He will be a Convening Lead Author for Chapter 18 of the Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report on “Detection and Attribution”.
 
Dr. Yohe served as a member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and currently participates as a member of the standing Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academies of Science.  He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the “Hidden (climate change) Cost of Oil” on March 30, 2006, the Senate Energy Committee on the Stern Review on February 14, 2007, and the Senate Banking Committee on “Material Risk from Climate Change and Climate Policy” on October 31, 2007.  He served as a member of the Adaptation Panel of the National Academy of Sciences’ initiative on America’s Climate Choices and as a member of an Academy Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations that was chaired by Susan Solomon.  He has recently become co-editor, along with Michael Oppenheimer, of Climatic Change.