What is Effective Economic Systemic Change for Climate? An Effective Altruism Perspective
Creators: name: Wang, Jason Ruochen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: climate crisis
ecological economics
effective altruism
climate change

description: Abstract: Economic systemic change is required to move past the environmental crisis. But what does changing the economic system actually mean and look like? Viewed through an effective altruism lens, what needs to change and how might effective altruists contribute to such change? This talk will review employed, planned, and theorized, approaches to tackling climate and environmental degradation crises. Finally, we will discuss the most pressing unresolved questions in this field, including how to act when risk and impact quantification is difficult and plagued by many deep uncertainties. This event was hosted by Effective Altruism Netherlands in Utrecht, Netherlands on 2020-02-22. Changelog:<br> 1.2 – Fixed dead links<br> 1.1 – PDF with no animations<br> 1.0 – As presented (Keynote)
description: {"references": ["G\u00fctschow, J., Jeffery, L., Gieseke, R., &amp; G\u00fcnther, A. (2019. The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1850-2017). v2.1. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2019.018", "Hsiang, S. M., Burke, M., &amp; Miguel, E. (2013). Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict. Science, 341(6151), 1235367\u20131235367. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235367", "Storm, S., &amp; Schr\u00f6der, E. (2018). Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions: The Road to 'Hothouse Earth' is Paved with Good Intentions. SSRN Electronic Journal, (84). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3306271", "Attari, S. Z., DeKay, M. L., Davidson, C. I., &amp; Bruine de Bruin, W. (2010). Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(37), 16054\u201316059. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001509107", "Pollin, R. (2018). De-Growth vs a Green New Deal. New Left Review, 112. Retrieved from https://newleftreview.org/issues/II112/articles/robert-pollin-de-growth-vs-a-green-new-deal", "Hickel, J., &amp; Kallis, G. (2019). Is Green Growth Possible? New Political Economy, 0(0), 1\u201318. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964", "Pirgmaier, E., &amp; Steinberger, J. (2019). Roots, Riots, and Radical Change\u2014A Road Less Travelled for Ecological Economics. Sustainability, 11(7), 2001. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11072001", "Kwakkel, J. H., Haasnoot, M., &amp; Walker, W. E. (2015). Developing dynamic adaptive policy pathways: a computer-assisted approach for developing adaptive strategies for a deeply uncertain world. Climatic Change, 132(3), 373\u2013386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1210-4", "Weaver, C. P., Lempert, R. J., Brown, C., Hall, J. A., Revell, D., &amp; Sarewitz, D. (2013). Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision making: the value and demands of robust decision frameworks. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 4(1), 39\u201360. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.202", "Gerst, M. D., Howarth, R. B., &amp; Borsuk, M. E. (2010). Accounting for the risk of extreme outcomes in an integrated assessment of climate change. Energy Policy, 38(8), 4540\u20134548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.04.008", "Wang, P., Deng, X., Zhou, H., &amp; Yu, S. (2019). Estimates of the social cost of carbon: A review based on meta-analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 209, 1494\u20131507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.058", "Otto, I. M., Donges, J. F., Cremades, R., Bhowmik, A., Hewitt, R. J., Lucht, W., \u2026 Schellnhuber, H. J. (2020). Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201900577. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900577117", "Howard, P. H., &amp; Sterner, T. (2017). Few and Not So Far Between: A Meta-analysis of Climate Damage Estimates. Environmental and Resource Economics, 68(1), 197\u2013225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0166-z", "Rockstr\u00f6m, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, \u00c5., Chapin, F. S., Lambin, E. F., \u2026 Foley, J. A. (2009). A safe operating space for humanity. Nature, 461(7263), 472\u2013475. https://doi.org/10.1038/461472a", "Hsiang, S., Kopp, R., Jina, A., Rising, J., Delgado, M., Mohan, S., \u2026 Houser, T. (2017). Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States. Science, 356(6345), 1362\u20131369. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4369", "Breisinger, C., Zhu, T., Al Riffai, P., Nelson, G., Robertson, R., Funes, J., &amp; Verner, D. (2013). Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Syria. Climate Change Economics, 04(01), 1350002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007813500024"]}