FACTS Climate&Economy conference, October 9 2014, 4-6pm, Wong auditorium

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Forwarded information from Emmanuel Vincent, MIT Postdoctoral Fellow 
(<evincent at mit.edu>), regarding a conference organized at MIT on October 
9th on the economic impacts of climate change, in preparation for the 
United Nation Conference on Climate in Paris in July 2015:

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*FACTS Climate&Economy conference, October 9 2014, 4-6pm, Wong auditorium*

Building up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be hosted 
by France in December 2015 (COP 21-Paris Climate 2015), the Embassies of 
France in both Canada and the United States are organizing events with 
the goal of promoting Canadian and American public engagement with 
climate challenges. Theses conferences are open to a general public and 
aim at raising awareness about COP21, bringing new ideas and promote 
innovations to fight Climate Change.

FACTS is a public conference series that will take place in seven cities 
in the United States and Canada involving renowned scientists, civil 
society representatives, NGOs, political figures, journalists and 
leaders of the cleantech industry. One of these conferences is organized 
in partnership with the MIT-France program, in Boston on October 9, 2014.

Kerry Emanuel (PAOC, MIT), Susan Solomon (PAOC, MIT), John Reilly 
(Sloan, MIT), Jean Jouzel (IPCC Vice-president) and Brice Lalonde 
(former minister of the environment in France) will be among 
the speakers. The focus of the discussion will be on the economics of 
climate change: the evaluation of the costs related to the impact of 
Climate Change and the opportunities which may emerge from that 
crisis. Emilie Alberola, Associate professor of economics at HEC Paris 
and Head of Carbon Market and Energy research division at CDC Climate in 
Paris, will give an overview of the economic tools available for curbing 
CO2 emissions.

The format is a two hour panel discussion from 4pm to 6 pm, moderated by 
Tom Zeller <http://facts.france-science.org/team/tom-zeller-jr/>, 
followed by a networking reception. It will take place at the Wong 
auditorium.

The program is available on the website : FACTS <http://bit.ly/FACTS-Bos>
Reserve your seat here 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/facts-boston-the-impacts-of-climate-change-tickets-12784983229#>

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Emmanuel M. Vincent
Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT
http://www.normalesup.org/~emvincent/ 
<http://www.normalesup.org/%7Eemvincent/>
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