OCP Policy Center is pleased to receive Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Senior Fellow at OCP Policy Center who will give a talk about the Economics of Climate Change.
The climate transition estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will affect the world’s natural resources, economy and societies in a scale that is yet unknown. The study “The Economics of Climate Change in Brazil” was a pioneering initiative to analyze and quantify the impact of climate change on the country’s development agenda. For the first time in Brazil, a large interdisciplinary team, comprised primarily of scientists and economists from leading research institutions in the country, was brought together to develop projections for various sectors. The starting point was computational models that provided projections on future behavior of the climate within the national territory, including aspects such as temperature and rainfall levels. These projections were fed into models to simulate some strategic segments of the economy, and they translated the expected impacts on each sector into economic terms according to potential future climate trends developed by the IPCC. Prof. Eduardo Haddad was directly involved in the coordination and implementation of the economic models. In this lecture, he will share some of the insights of the study, emphasizing its main economic aspects. Read more here.