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SUMMARY:2026 RFF and Harvard SRM workshop on Solar Radiation Modification
DESCRIPTION:Resources for the Future (RFF)’s Solar Geoengineering Research Project and the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program(Opens in New Tab) seek to improve understanding of the risks\, potential benefits\, and other uncertain implications of solar radiation modification (SRM) as one approach among others to help address climate change risk. \nAs part of these efforts\, the cohosts invite submissions for individuals to present new\, recent\, or ongoing social and economic science research on SRM at the 4th annual RFF and Harvard Social Science Research Workshop on Solar Radiation Modification\, to be held September 10-11\, 2026\, at Resources for the Future in Washington\, DC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nSubmit a Presentation Proposal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe encourage presentation proposals from a wide range of scholars\, drawing from a variety of social science disciplines defined broadly (including political science\, economics\, public policy\, international affairs\, law\, sociology\, psychology and behavioral science\, history\, geography\, science & technology studies\, and anthropology\, as well as the humanities\, including philosophy and ethics\, among other fields). Interdisciplinary research integrating social and physical aspects of SRM is welcome. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from researchers or research teams from less developed countries of the Global South. \nWe invite proposals on these research topics: the role of SRM in a broad climate policy portfolio; the political economy of SRM; governance and institutional design; the geopolitics and international relations of SRM; domestic politics of SRM; public perception and risk communication; and ethics and justice. In addition\, we will consider social science research applied to other SRM questions. \nSome travel support is available for accepted presenters who may require it. If this applies\, please indicate so in your application. Registration information to attend the meeting online for non-presenting attendees will be made available prior to the workshop. \nTo submit a presentation proposal click here(Opens in New Tab). \nProposal submissions are due by May 15\, 2026. Each proposal will be reviewed by a panel of relevant experts and decisions will be announced by June 15. \nFor questions\, please contact Tyler Felgenhauer(Opens in New Tab) or Kristin Hayes(Opens in New Tab). Please feel free to advertise this call within your networks.
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LOCATION:Washington\, USA\, Resources For the Future
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SUMMARY:CMCC Talk: Productivity Growth under Net Zero: Measurement\, Networks\, and the Clean Energy Dividend
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Emilien Ravigné\, CMCC Foundation \nModerator: Cristina Cattaneo\, CMCC Foundation \nThe Net Zero transition is often framed as a cost to the economy\, but its implications for productivity are more subtle. This talk brings together three ongoing projects that study how clean energy technologies affect measured and aggregate productivity. First\, I show that the energy transition is also a measurement story. When clean technologies get cheaper\, and much of the innovation is embodied in imported equipment\, statistical choices determine the macroeconomic narrative around Net Zero. Second\, I present a framework that maps sectoral price and quantity paths from transition scenarios into aggregate total factor productivity. Applied to UK Climate Change Committee scenarios\, the aggregate productivity effect of Net Zero is small\, because sectoral costs and savings largely offset one another. Third\, I examine low- and middle-income countries\, where falling renewable costs\, electrification\, and reduced conversion losses can generate much larger productivity gains. In energy-intensive economies with strong renewable resources\, clean energy can become a source of comparative advantage and long-run growth. Overall\, the transition does not mechanically imply a productivity penalty: its effects depend on measurement\, production-network structure\, and where clean energy cost declines occur. \n17 September 2026\, 12:00 CEST\nTo join the webinar\, register here
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SUMMARY:CMCC Lecture: The financial risks of extreme environmental events
DESCRIPTION:As climate extremes intensify\, so do their economic consequences. Join Professor Gregory Characklis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to explore how droughts\, floods\, heatwaves and storms are reshaping financial risk across key sectors. Discover advanced  approaches to measuring\, managing and transferring risk\, and learn how innovative strategies can build resilience in a rapidly changing world. \n\nThe effects of extreme environmental events such as droughts\, floods\, heatwaves and violent storms go beyond the physical impacts\, causing global economic losses that approach $500 billion each year. \nIn this CMCC Lecture\, Professor Gregory Characklis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will examine how environmental extremes can affect the costs and revenues of both public and private-sector actors\, generating financial instability that can be disruptive and influence decisionmaking in significant ways. \nUnderstanding the nature of these risks requires integrated modeling of natural (for example\, hydrologic)\, engineered (like reservoirs) and economic and financial systems (like electricity markets). But characterizing the financial risks is just the first step: they also must be managed. This is often achieved with a combination of actions and tools that involve risk reduction (such as infrastructure)\, risk retention (for example\, cash reserves) and risk transfer (like insurances). For the most severe events\, risk transfer via more sophisticated financial instruments can be especially effective in enabling advanced risk management strategies that are both adaptable and cost-effective. \nJoin the discussion as the Lecture explores approaches to characterising financial risk in coupled natural-engineered-economic systems\, draws on recent studies at the forefront of the field and presents strategies for managing the financial risk of environmental extremes on economic sectors such as urban water utilities\, electric power utilities\, inland navigation and the housing market. \n\nSpeaker: Gregory W. Characklis\, Ph.D.\, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor Dept. of Environmental Sciences & Engineering\, Director\, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \nDiscussant: Silvia Torresan\, CMCC and Ca’Foscari University of Venice \nModerator: Andrea Castelletti\, CMCC and Politecnico di Milano \n\nDr. Characklis serves as William. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)\, as well as the Director of UNC’s Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation\, a pan-campus research and teaching unit that is supported by more than 40 industry partners. His primary research interests involve assessing and managing the financial risks of extreme events through modeling of interdisciplinary systems\, research currently funded by a range of state and federal agencies\, as well as the private sector. \nDr. Characklis has served on the Editorial Boards of Water Security and Water Resources Research. He has also served on the Boards of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (serving as President in 2015-16)\, and the Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences Inc. (CUAHSI). Prior to joining UNC\, Dr. Characklis served as Director of Resource Development and Management at Azurix Corp. (a subsidiary of Enron Corp.) where his responsibilities centered around assessing the technical and financial merits of water development projects. Before entering the private sector\, he spent two years as a Fellow with the National Academy of Engineering in Washington DC.  Dr. Characklis holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Rice University and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University. \n  \n22 September 2026\, 14.00 CEST | Online\nTo join the Lecture\, register here
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SUMMARY:CMCC Talk: Artificial societies\, real decisions: agent-based simulation for climate policy testing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alessandro Taberna\, CMCC Foundation \nModerator: Francesco Lamperti\, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and CMCC Foundation \n\n\n\nHow might we assess whether a climate adaptation policy will benefit a population — and at what economic cost — before it is implemented? This talk presents a bottom-up\, data-intensive approach based on agent-based simulation: computational models in which hundreds of thousands of virtual households and firms make individual decisions\, so that aggregate economic and social outcomes emerge from the interactions of many heterogeneous actors rather than imposed assumptions. \nThe central idea is calibration against real-world micro-data. By grounding these “artificial societies” in household surveys\, flood maps\, and geolocated climate variables such as temperature and precipitation\, we can construct synthetic populations that closely reproduce the structure of specific territories. Within this controlled virtual environment we can then run counterfactual\, “what-if” experiments — introducing a candidate climate policy and tracing its effects on the simulated economy and population over time. \nBuilding these artificial societies draws on several fields: economics and psychology shape how agents behave\, geography and climate science define the physical environment they inhabit\, and data science and high-performance computing make the simulation possible — offering policymakers a low-risk laboratory for evaluating climate and development choices. \n20 October 2026\, 12:00 CEST\nTo join the webinar\, register here
URL:https://ab42158a9ffe39a495c70.admin.hardypress.com/event/cmcc-talk-artificial-societies-real-decisions-agent-based-simulation-for-climate-policy-testing/
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SUMMARY:ECEMP 2026 – Climate Change\, Energy Security and Competitiveness: Modelling an energy system under stress
DESCRIPTION:21-22 October 2026\, Brussels and online \nThe EU aims to reach GHG neutrality by 2050. The conflict in Ukraine raises the question of energy security in the EU. And\, the industry faces strong competition outside of the EU. The challenge for policy makers and modelers alike is to find solutions that are aligned to all of these issues and goals. This year’s ECEMP edition seeks for collaboration between models and modelers to study more than the energy system alone\, including competitiveness\, strategic resources\, policies and social justice. Call for abstracts is open until 12 June 2026. \nMore information
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LOCATION:Bruxelles & online
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