THE BOTTOM LINE ON CLIMATE CHANGE: TRANSITIONING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY
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New York, September 19, 2011 - The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) presents The Bottom Line on Climate Change: Transitioning to Renewable Energy (Sept. 23 and 24), a two-day conference featuring expert analysis of how the transition to renewable energy will affect the fragile U.S. and global economies. The conference is a continuation of SCEPA's 2010 conference The Economics of Climate Change. "Fukushima has heated up the debate on the transition to renewable energy and its economic impact," said Willi Semmler, Professor of Economics, The New School for Social Research. "Is green energy the answer to global warming, energy independence, and the prevention of Fukushima-like disasters? If so, will the switch kill jobs and raise taxes - or will renewable energy create a green recovery? We're looking to some of the world's leading climate economists to explore these questions." The Bottom Line on Climate Change will bring together U.S. & E.U. government officials, geoscientists, policy analysts, politicians, business leaders and academics. Participants include Ottmar Edenhofer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), James E. Hansen from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Peter Schlosser from the Earth Institute at Columbia, Artur Runge-Metzger from the EU Commission, and New School president David E. Van Zandt. Panels will include an Update on Trends in Global Warming Research, Climate Policies, Greeen Energy and Employment, How Fast is the Transition to Green Energy, and Nuclear Energy After Fukushima. For a full schedule of the conference visit SCEPA's website at http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/ |
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