Climate
Change 2014 -
Mitigation of Climate Change - Key Insights from the AR5
Date:
Wednesday 19th
November, 2014
Time: 17.15 –
19.00
Venue: 5 West
2.3
Audience:
This
event
is free and open to all, with registration
in advance.
Speakers:
Professor
Ottmar
Edenhofer (Professor of the Economics of Climate Change,
Technical
University Berlin)
Abstract: The contribution of Working Group III to the
IPCC’s Fifth
Assessment Report assesses options for mitigating climate change
and their
underlying technological, economic and institutional
requirements. This
assessment is framed by analyses of risk and uncertainty, of
social, economic
and ethical concepts and of implications for sustainable
development and
equity. The authors have investigated trends and drivers of
greenhouse gas
emissions and mitigation measures for all major sectors: energy,
transport,
buildings, industry, agriculture, forestry and other land use.
An additional
chapter is dedicated to urban mitigation, a cross-cutting topic
at the local
scale.
The
sectoral perspective is
complemented by cross-sectoral and cross-regional findings based
on scenarios
that originate from integrated models. The report provides an
ex-post
assessment of climate relevant policies and characterizes
pathways to
alternative climate policy goals and their implications at
international,
regional, national and sub-national levels. The report concludes
with an assessment
of investment and finance issues.
Biography:
Ottmar
Edenhofer
studied philosophy and economics. He is Deputy Director and
Chief
Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(PIK), Professor
of the Economics of Climate Change of the Technical University
Berlin and
Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
(IPCC). Moreover, he is director of the newly founded Mercator
Research Institute
on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) as well as adviser to
the World Bank
regarding issues of economic growth and climate protection.
At
PIK
he is leading Research Domain III - Sustainable Solutions - that
focuses on
research in the field of the Economics of Atmospheric
Stabilisation. He is
member of the Science-Industry Cooperation and member of the
German National
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Workgroup Climate, Energy and
Environment. He
has published articles in Science, Nature, Energy Journal,
Climatic Change,
Energy Economics, Energy Policy and other peer-reviewed journals
and authored a
number of books.
He
was
a Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC from
2004 until 2007
and recently co-edited the IPCC Special Report on Renewable
Energy Sources and
Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN). Edenhofer’s research explores
the impact of
induced technological change on mitigation costs and mitigation
strategies, as
well as the design of instruments for climate and energy policy
and the
science-policy interface.
For
further
details about the lecture, please visit the event web page.
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