Presenters
Special Interview
Andrew Light
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, US Department of Energy
University Professor, George Mason University
with Kian-Mintz Woo
Corporation and State
Thea Riofrancos (Providence College)
The Security-Sustainability Nexus: Statecraft, Capital, and Protest Along the Global Lithium Frontier
Melissa Cuevas Flores (Humboldt Foundation/adelphi)
Key Characteristics and Blueprints of Innovative Financing Mechanisms in Adaptation Financing
Matto Mildenberger (University of California, Santa Barbara)
How Campaign Contributions Distort the Climate Attitudes of Elected Officials
Jared Finnegan (University of California, Berkeley)Jonas Meckling (University of California, Berkeley)
Corporate Governance, Time Horizons, and the Climate Policy Preferences of Firms
Fergus Green (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University)
Seize the Means of Decarbonization! The Case for Public Ownership of Fossil Fuel Companies
Emmy Wassenius (Stockholm University)
Portfolio Diversification of Earth System Risks
Angel Hsu (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
From Net-Zero to Net-Hero: Examining Net-Zero Credibility in Corporate and Subnational Actors
Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh (Université Laval)
The Energy Transition: Market Trends and Political Decisions
Paasha Mahdavi (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Alexandra Gillies (Natural Resource Governance Institute)
The Fox in the Henhouse: Why Oil Nationalization Won’t Help Accelerate Decarbonization
Evidence from Publics and Policy-makers
Weila Gong (Technical University of Munich/University of Pittsburgh)
How Local Governments Sustain Policy Experiments After a Turnover in Local Leadership: Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship and Resource Mobilization in China’s Low-Carbon Policy Experimentation
S. Duygu Sever (Koç University)
Climate Change and Nuclear Energy: Dilemmas in Political Willingness and Financial Burden from Stakeholder Perspectives
Pooja Ramamurthi (Princeton)
Understanding Policymaker and Public Perspectives of India’s Energy Transition
Jesse Strecker (University of California, Berkeley)
What do Labor Unions Want from Climate Policy Making Processes? And How do Unions Turn These Preferences into Strategies?
Aseem Mahajan (Harvard)
The Politics of Climate Adaptation: Evidence from Massachusetts’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program
Ideals and Reality
Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)
Pareto Improvements, Intergenerational Climate Extortion, and Making the Grandchildren Pay?
Simon Caney (University of Warwick)
Political Feasibility and Political Responsibility: Integrating Political Philosophy and Political Science
Louis Daumas (Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement)
Mathilde Salin (École normale supérieure, Paris)
A Climate Bad Bank to Govern Climate Stranded Assets?
John Broome (Oxford)
Self-Interest Against Climate Change
Jessica Green (University of Toronto)
The Climate Establishment: Regulatory Capture in the Global Climate Regime
Jeff Colgan (Brown)
Climate, Grand Strategy, and International Order
Nikhar Gaikwad (Columbia) Federica Genovese (University of Essex) Dustin Tingley (Harvard)
Climate Action from Abroad: The Determinants of Mass Support for Cross-Border Climate Compensation
Alyssa Bernstein (Ohio University)
The Case for a World Climate Bank: Questions of Economic Theory, Ethics, and Justice
Abiodun Afolabi (Rhodes University)
Wading through Vested Interests for a Just Global Climate Finance and Politics
Aaron James (University of California Irvine)
The Moral Necessity of Climate Efficiency
Policy Tools
Paul Kelleher (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
What’s Next for the U.S. Social Cost of Carbon?
Nicolas Choquette-Levy (Princeton) & Matthias Wildemeersch (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
Can Smallholder Farmer Risk-Sharing Mechanisms Co-Exist with Formal Climate Insurance?
Laura Kuhl (Northeastern)
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation: Transformational Potential in Developing Countries
Laura G. Elsler (Stockholm University)
Protecting marine species through climate governance
Joe Lane (Princeton)
Kian Mintz-Woo (University College Cork)
How Much Carbon Capture and Storage Should We Pursue?
Ishana Ratan (University of California, Berkeley)
One Size Doesn’t FiT All: Domestic Politics and Investment in the Solar Industry
Frank Errickson (Princeton)
Progressive Revenue Recycling can Alleviate Poverty, Reduce Inequality, and Improve Wellbeing While Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Alexander Gard-Murray (Harvard)
The Political Inefficiency of Carbon Pricing
Other
Rebecca Henderson (Harvard)
TBA
Rachel Kyte (Tufts)
TBA
Guests
- Robert Keohane (Princeton)
- Simona Capisani (Harvard/Princeton)
- Sarah Williams (University of Cumbria)
- Robert Socolow (Princeton)
- Nicky Van Dijk (University of Tasmania)
- Nancy Rosenblum (Harvard)
- Michael Brownstein (City University of New York)
- Melissa Tier (Princeton)
- Melissa Lane (Princeton)
- Lukas Fuchs (University College London)
- Kyle Fruh (Duke Kunshan University)
- Kathleen Wallace (Hofstra University)
- Johnathan Guy (University of California, Berkeley)
- Jessica Fischer (University College London)
- Harro Van Asselt (UEF)
- Francisco Garcia-Gibson (National Research Council, Argentina)
- Esther Shears (University of California, Berkeley)
- Elke Weber (Princeton)
- David Morrow (American University/George Mason University)
- Dan Shahar (University of New Orleans)
- Colin Hickey (Utrecht University/Princeton University)
- Clarissa Busch (University of Pennsylvania)
- Bob Kopp (Rutgers)
- Benjamin Hale (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Romy Opperman (New School)
- Eric Godoy (Illinois State University)
- Colin Marshall (University of Washington)
- Blake Francis (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
- Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki)
- Shiming Yang (Leiden University)
- Romy Opperman (New School)
- Calif Chen (Princeton)
- Matthew Rendall (University of Nottingham)
- Marion Hourdequin (Colorado College)
- Hanna Schuebel (University of Fribourg)
- Alice Lepissier (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Brendan Mapes (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Marco Shletz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Josh McBee (Climate Advisers)
- Matthew Nowlin (College of Charleston)
Organizers
The Climate Futures Workshop 2021 is sponsored by the Climate Futures Initiative, the High Meadows Environmental Institute, and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Organizing Committee
Advisory Committee
Contact climatefuturesworkshop@gmail.com with any questions.