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AERE's Teaching & Pedagogy Working Group invites you to the AERE 2026 Fall Virtual Workshop, November 9 and 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time each day. Monday focuses on teaching climate economics in today's world, consider...
"Activating Financial Services for Earth System Stability"
Organized by Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)
Room: Ríma A
Speakers:
Marian D’Auria, Chief Sustainability Officer, M&G
Anthony Hobley, Founder, The Rosetta Initiative
Sandy Trust, Planetary Solvency lead, IF...
Offener Brief [PDF] via
Climate risk is getting worse, but many of the solutions are getting cheaper. The bigger challenge may no longer be inventing new technology, but deciding what to deploy, who pays for it, and which tradeoffs are actually worth making.
Gernot Wagner, climate economist at Columbia Business School and author of "Climate Shock" and "Geoengineering: The Gamble," joins Nathan...
When Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland invented the first commercial synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1907, he started a materials revolution. Innovative and ultra-durable, this fossil fuel derivative quickly became foundational to early electrical and industrial manufacturing. But not long after, product design and packaging systems started increasingly prioritizing d...