Humanity is at the beginning of a revolution that will change the way you think about your family, you work and yourself and bring radical change for every institution and every nation, as well as changing the definition of wealth.
It will challenge the definition of what it means to be human and once it’s over, society will be completely re-organised and our sense of ourselves and our place in the universe altered. You may not know it but you’ve already seen the trailer.
In this talk Mark Stevenson shows us the main feature, that’s coming sooner than we realise.

MARK STEVENSON, AUTHOR, ENTREPRENEUR AND FUTURIST

Mark is an entrepreneur and thinker on global and societal trends, innovation and technology. He ha worked with IBM, the Barbican, Audi and the Wellcome Trust, helping them to see where the world is going – and how to adapt.
He is author of An Optimist’s Tour of the Future and We Do Things Differently. He has advisory roles wit Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge and the crowd-investing company Trillion Fund. He is also a occasional professional comedy writer.

PANEL DISCUSSION
With speakers from Oxford University, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Atkins, Environment Agency and Foundation for Water Research

The implementation of water science and technology is often dependent on uptake by regulators and water managers. However, young scientists and engineers are rarely exposed to regulatory issues and opportunities until they get into the workplace.

This event will bring together a panel of researchers, consultants and regulators engaged in front line water management in the UK and abroad, to discuss the implementation of science through regulation. These water specialists will reflect on the issues and opportunities for improved water management and regulation, including the point of entry for new and innovative methods and models.

BOOK LAUNCH
This event will also be the launch of a new book, Regulation for Water Quality – How to Safeguard the Water Environment, written by Chris Chubb, Martin Griffiths and Simon Spooner. The book will be introduced and the electronic version demonstrated by the authors. The book has been written to make regulatory principles and best practice available to all. It provides an innovative and structured guide to the wealth of information on water regulation and catchment planning. It is hoped that the publication will be a key tool for knowledge exchange in this essential water management area, in developed and developing countries.

Regulation for Water Quality has been written for public good and is a not-for-profit publication available for free on the FWR Website www.fwr.org. Hard copies are available for purchase from FWR.

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This event is hosted by the Oxford Water Network and sponsored by the Foundation for Water Research.

The panel discussion will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome.

We live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, the Age of Us, of which climate change is just one aspect. The defining feature of this age is that sum of human activity (how many we are and what we are doing) has become large compared to the natural processes of the biosphere. The atmospheric waste products of our activity being the main driver of climate change. How can we measure how “large” we are, and how has our impact on the planet varied throughout human history?

Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, will examine this question through the concept of social metabolism, how much energy we use to support our lifestyles, compared to the metabolism of the biosphere. With this concept in hand, we will travel from a world full of hunter gatherers after the end of the last Ice Age, through the dawn of farming, the Roman Empire, the industrial revolution and finally look at prospects for the 21st century. On the way we’ll examine whether our cities behave like termite colonies, and whether people walk faster in London than in Oxford. And you’ll find out how you are like King Kong…

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In this talk Professor Tim Palmer, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, will address three related questions.

Firstly, what are the physical reasons why predictions of climate change are necessarily uncertain?

Secondly, how can we communicate this uncertainty in a simple but rigorous way to those policy makers for whom uncertainty quantification may seem an unnecessary complication.

Finally, what is needed to reduce uncertainty about future climate change? For the latter, I will argue that the sort of inspiration and ambition that led to the Large Hadron Collider is now needed for the development of climate-change science.

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Tuesday 3 February 2015, 5.30pm for 6pm start until 7.30pm, followed by a drinks reception

This event will focus on managing the risks associated with water scarcity and droughts. Professor Jim Hall (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) will outline the NERC-funded multidisciplinary project ‘Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity’ (MaRIUS), which is looking to change the way in which drought is managed in the UK by introducing a risk-based approach to drought and water scarcity in order to inform management decisions and prepare households. Dr Helen Gavin (Atkins) will summarise the 2013 reform of the industry ‘Code of Practice and Guidance for Water Companies on Water Use Restrictions’, which incorporated lessons learned from the 2011-12 drought.

One of the key objectives of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), completed in 2014, was to provide a comprehensive description of the science of climate change and options for adaptation and mitigation for negotiators preparing for the Paris Conference in 2015.

IPCC authors Myles Allen and Nick Eyre will explain the IPCC process, and ask whether this model of a technical panel giving “policy relevant, not policy prescriptive” advice to governments is still working. They will highlight some key findings, such as the increased level of confidence that human influence is the dominant cause of the warming observed since the mid-20th-century, the importance of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions, the challenges of emission reductions, but also the multiple mitigation pathways still open for achieving the goal of limiting warming to 2oC.

They will also discuss some of the things the IPCC does not do, such as specifically attributing blame for observed climate change impacts, and ask what the options are for the IPCC going forward.

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21CC is a multidisciplinary conference, which unites leading minds to explore the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Led by Oxford students it is partnered with the Oxford Martin School, which pioneers research, policy and debate on global issues.

What: Our 2015 conference will cover some of the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century including cybersecurity, geoengineering, inequality and arms trafficking.

Who: Speakers include the Director of Privacy International, the UK Parliamentary Cyber Adviser, previous Director of the Special Forces, the ex-VP of the World Bank, Head of Arms Control at Amnesty International, Directors from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, leading climate change scientists, UN and NATO experts and many more!

When: 7th Feb, Saturday of 3rd Week, at the Mathematics Institute.

Visit: www.21cc-oxford.com for tickets and more info!

Join members from across the LWOB student divisions, academics and practitioners for a day of critical reflection and creativity. On Saturday 7th of February at the apt location of the Oxford Martin School in the heart of the city, we will be asking what the 21st Century holds for the Human Rights Agenda. The morning keynote and speaker panel will equip you with a road-map of lessons and criteria with which to face the afternoon. In the afternoon sessions delegates will split into individual ’21st century Right’ panels and aim to draft and vote on the desirability of a currently unrecognised Human Right.

Rights being mooting in the afternoon include: The Right to a Sustainable Environment, The Right to Transparent Transactions, The Right to be Forgotten

Information on speakers, the timetable and tickets for the conference can all be found here: http://oxlwobconference.wix.com/conference-2015#!home/mainPage

*** Life After New Media ***
4-5.15pm Seminar Room, Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles
* Please sign up by emailing events@oii.ox.ac.uk*

Sarah Kember, Professor of New Technologies of Communications,
Goldsmiths, University of London
With response by Nina Wakeford, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
Chaired by Dr Isis Hjorth, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

In this talk Sarah Kember will speak to her formulation of mediation
as a vital process, as outlined in her recent book Life After New
Media (MIT Press, 2012 – with Joanna Zylinska). In this book Kember
argues that we should move beyond our fascination with
objects–computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles–to an examination of
the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of
mediation. Doing so reveals that life itself can be understood as
mediated–subject to the same processes of reproduction,
transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media
forms. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida, Kember suggest that
the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social
lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities.
Mediation–all-encompassing and indivisible–becomes a key trope for
understanding our being in the technological world.

This event is a collaboration between the Ruskin School of Art and the OII.
*** Please sign up by emailing events@oii.ox.ac.uk***

**About Sarah Kember**
Sarah Kember is a writer and academic. She is Professor of New
Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Recent publications include a novel The Optical Effects of Lightning
(Wild Wolf Publishing, 2011) and a monograph Life After New Media:
Mediation as a Vital Process (The MIT Press, 2012). She co-edits the
journals of photographies and Feminist Theory. Current research
includes a feminist critique of smart media (iMedia. The gendering of
objects, environments and smart materials, Palgrave, forthcoming) and
an affiliated novel, provisionally entitled A Day In The Life Of Janet
Smart. Sarah is also co-PI of an RCUK funded project on digital
publishing and part of the Centre for Creativity, Regulation,
Enterprise and Technology (CREATe).

The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing worldwide. It has been estimated by the World Health Organization that, in 2001, chronic diseases contributed approximately 60% of the 56.5 million total reported deaths in the world and approximately 46% of the global burden of disease. Moreover, the proportion of the burden of non-communicable diseases is expected to increase up to 57% by 2020. Approximately 50% of the total chronic disease deaths are attributable to cardiovascular diseases, with obesity and diabetes occurring earlier in life. Improving quality of care for chronic diseases requires an effective longitudinal medical record that can be used to track patient statuses. Focusing on the empowering application of electronic medical records and other eHealth/mHealth systems to manage healthcare, Dr Fraser will discuss the potential strategies for managing chronic diseases in the LMICs.

The role of eHealth in chronic disease management in low and middle income countries
and the importance of scalable, modular, open systems

Dr Hamish Fraser

Monday, February 9th, 2015
The Mawby Room, Kellogg College
5PM – 6PM
** Drinks Served from 4.30pm**

Abstract

The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing worldwide. It has been estimated by the World Health Organization that, in 2001, chronic diseases contributed approximately 60% of the 56.5 million total reported deaths in the world and approximately 46% of the global burden of disease. Moreover, the proportion of the burden of non-communicable diseases is expected to increase up to 57% by 2020. Approximately 50% of the total chronic disease deaths are attributable to cardiovascular diseases, with obesity and diabetes occurring earlier in life. Improving quality of care for chronic diseases requires an effective longitudinal medical record that can be used to track patient statuses and generate Focusing on the empowering application of electronic medical records and other eHealth/mHealth systems to manage healthcare, Dr Fraser will discuss the potential strategies for managing chronic diseases in the LMICs. He will draw examples for over 10 years experience leading the development of open source web-based medical record systems including OpenMRS, along with data analysis tools, and pharmacy systems to support the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV in Peru, Haiti, Rwanda, Malawi and the Philippines.

Biography

Dr Hamish Fraser is a physician who recently returned to the UK as Associate Professor in eHealth at the University of Leeds. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. For 12 years he was the Director of Informatics and Telemedicine at Partners In Health (PIH), a non-profit global health care organization founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, and Jim Yong Kim. Dr Fraser’s work has led to the migration of medical informatics tools and expertise from high income countries to some of the poorest and most challenging environments in the world. Along with colleagues from the Regenstrief Institute at the University of Indiana and the South African Medical Research Council, Dr. Fraser is a co-founder OpenMRS, an international collaboration to develop a flexible, open source electronic medical record system platform for use in low and middle income countries (LMICs). OpenMRS is now used to support patient treatment in more than 50 LMICs. Dr Fraser has recently been co-leading a project to develop a custom version of OpenMRS adapted for use by staff in protective equipment in the Kerry Town Sierra Leone Ebola Treatment Center. He has a strong interest in the evaluation of medical information systems in LMICs and has carried out studies in Peru, Haiti, and Rwanda. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and Section Editor for the Journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Data has invaluable applications to ensure organisations like Oxfam are needs driven and responsive, meanwhile there are also huge risks to communities if the related processes are not designed and managed in a responsible manner. Adopting meaningful approaches to data security and ethical methodology is not a new effort within Oxfam and the development community nor is it for academics. What is new, however, is the way that the changing digital landscape is presenting new challenges and opportunities which we must react to and ensure staff have resources and knowledge about how to collect, store, manage, use and even dispose of data responsibly. How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it comes to effective management of data? As Oxfam are in the process of applying a Responsible Data Policy, how can we learn from and support one another, particularly when it comes to guidance and what policy means in practice?

In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology.

Garry Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under-20 champion at 17. He came to international fame as the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985 at the age of 22. He defended his title five times, including a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov broke Bobby Fischer’s rating record in 1990 and his own peak rating record remained unbroken until 2013. His famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream.

Kasparov’s outspoken nature did not endear him to the Soviet authorities, giving him an early taste of opposition politics. From 1989-91 he was outspoken in opposition to the Soviet system. It was still a shock when Kasparov, then in his 20th year as the world’s top-ranked player, abruptly retired from competitive chess in 2005 to join the vanguard of the Russian pro democracy movement. He founded the United Civil Front and organized the Marches of Dissent to protest the repressive policies of Vladimir Putin. In 2012, Kasparov was elected to the Coordinating Council of the united opposition movement. In the same year, he was named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. In June, 2013, Kasparov led the Iranian online voting initiative “We Choose” using a Russian-built edemocracy platform.

The US-based Kasparov Chess Foundation non-profit promotes the teaching of chess in education systems around the world. Now in over 3500 US schools, KCF recently launched centers in Europe and Africa with South America soon to come.

Kasparov has been a contributing editor to The Wall Street Journal since 1991 and is a frequent commentator on politics and human rights. He speaks frequently to business audiences around the world on innovation, strategy, and peak mental performance. Kasparov’s book “How Life Imitates Chess” on decision-making is available in over 20 languages. He is the author of two acclaimed series of chess books, “My Great Predecessors” and “Modern Chess”. More information is available at kasparov.com.

Following the agreement between Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping on carbon caps, the focus of climate change negotiations is focussed on the Paris Conference of the Parties in December 2015. This seminar series looks at the big issues at Paris, the chances of success, the possible shape of an agreement, whether it will have much impact, what the alternative approaches are, and what lies beyond in technology and climate change policy.

Convenors: Prof Dieter Helm | Prof Cameron Hepburn | Prof Robert Hahn

In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology.

This talk will be followed by a drinks reception, all welcome

Garry Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under-20 champion at 17. He came to international fame as the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985 at the age of 22. He defended his title five times, including a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov broke Bobby Fischer’s rating record in 1990 and his own peak rating record remained unbroken until 2013. His famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream.

Kasparov’s outspoken nature did not endear him to the Soviet authorities, giving him an early taste of opposition politics. From 1989-91 he was outspoken in opposition to the Soviet system. It was still a shock when Kasparov, then in his 20th year as the world’s top-ranked player, abruptly retired from competitive chess in 2005 to join the vanguard of the Russian pro democracy movement. He founded the United Civil Front and organized the Marches of Dissent to protest the repressive policies of Vladimir Putin. In 2012, Kasparov was elected to the Coordinating Council of the united opposition movement. In the same year, he was named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. In June, 2013, Kasparov led the Iranian online voting initiative “We Choose” using a Russian-built edemocracy platform.

The US-based Kasparov Chess Foundation non-profit promotes the teaching of chess in education systems around the world. Now in over 3500 US schools, KCF recently launched centers in Europe and Africa with South America soon to come.

Kasparov has been a contributing editor to The Wall Street Journal since 1991 and is a frequent commentator on politics and human rights. He speaks frequently to business audiences around the world on innovation, strategy, and peak mental performance. Kasparov’s book “How Life Imitates Chess” on decision-making is available in over 20 languages. He is the author of two acclaimed series of chess books, “My Great Predecessors” and “Modern Chess”. More information is available at kasparov.com.

In this seminar Dr Rob Bellamy, James Martin Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will explore how and why people disagree about how to tackle climate change. What hope then is there for a global political agreement in Paris 2015?

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Sustainable water resources development remains a key and complex challenge in programmes that promote economic growth; reduce poverty and increase equity; maintain aquatic ecosystem services; and address climate change at the global, regional, national and local level. The presentation will review experiences, discuss challenges and highlight emerging issues at the policy, strategy, programme and project level, drawing on experience from multilateral development banks and bilateral donor organisations. It will examine issues related to the assessment of trade-offs, the decision-making process, and actions and results on the ground in both developed and developing countries.

Stephen F. Lintner is Visiting Professor of Geography at King’s College London and has over 35 years of worldwide experience in environment, infrastructure and water resources management. At King’s he focuses on three complementary themes: policies and procedures for management of environmental and social impacts and risks; assessment and management of transboundary freshwater, coastal and marine resources; and evaluation of historical processes of human modification of environmental systems. Lintner previously held leadership roles at the World Bank; his most recent position, from 2000 to 2014, was as Senior Technical Adviser, with global responsibilities. Prior to joining the World Bank, Lintner served in the United States Agency for International Development, United States Geological Survey and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (USA).

How are oceans affected by our rapidly changing climate? What can they tell us about the processes controlling climate change? And what role do they play in driving climate? Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and Professor David Marshall, Professor of Physical Oceanography, will explore the role of oceans in climate change.

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• Bill McKibben – Founder of 350.org and the global fossil fuel divestment
movement (Via Skype)
• Phil Ball – Greenpeace activist and member of the Arctic 30 who were arrested
and detained by Russian authorities for protesting a Gazprom oil rig
• Tabitha Spence – Campaign against Climate Change
• Adam Ramsay – Environmental Campaigner and Academic

2015 is a sink or swim year for the Climate movement, a year in which a vast social
movement must organise and agitate for a decisive decision at the next United Nations
COP on Climate Change. March, Occupy, Organise. As part of Oxford Radical Forum
2015, come and hear the motive and the method for a radical intervention in the climate
crisis in 2015. Free to attend.

This is part of the Oxford Radical Forum, running from Friday 20 Feb to Sunday 22 February. Full programme here: https://oxfordradicalforum.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/orf2015_full_programme1.pdf

Global Politics, Economy and Society Seminar with a talk by:

Dr Paul Chatterton (University of Leeds) on

“Embedding Experimental and Transformational Pathways for Post-Carbon Cities: Lessons from the Lilac Cohousing Co-operative Project”

Venue: John Henry Brookes Building, room JHB206
Date: Monday 23 February 2015
Time: 4.15pm

All welcome!

India’s right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people. But this process requires a lot of time, skill and organizational effort – thanks to which very few audits are organized in India despite its potential. We hope to change this by creating digital tools for activists, which they can use to organize social audits continuously at low cost, and thus challenge corruption in a sustained manner. The technology involves collecting public records online, disseminating it to people via mobile phones and collecting their feedback so that the activists can redress grievances in a timely manner. I will share the progress of the project so far in this talk. This event will be followed by a short drinks reception.

Registration is required for this event.

Some five years ago Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, raised the concept of ‘The Perfect Storm’ in which the issues of food, water and energy security needed to be addressed at the same time as mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this seminar he highlights changes that have occurred since then and the progress made and challenges that are currently faced.

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The 2011 World Urbanising Prospect report estimates that by 2050 60% of Africans will live in urban centres. But is the water and sanitation sector fit for purpose to address this rapidly urbanising world? Do we have appropriate water technologies, human resources, fiscal investment plans and partnerships?

Dr Samuel Godfrey is Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in UNICEF’s largest WASH programme globally (Ethiopia). Prior to that Dr Godfrey was the UNICEF Chief of WASH in Mozambique and the WASH Specialist in Madhya Pradesh, India. He describes himself as an ‘implementing academic’, with an MSc and PhD in water engineering from Loughborough University’s Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) and 18 years’ experience in the global water and sanitation sector.

Over the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa which has attracted substantial media and academic interest. However questions remain about the economically transformative nature and potential of this diffusion of communication infrastructures and artefacts. Based on over two hundred firm level interviews in Tanzania and South Africa this paper explores the impacts of the “information revolution” on small and medium enterprise development. Contrary to perceptions it finds evidence of thin integration, devaluation and neo, rather than disintermediation. The implications of this for African development are then explored.

Registration is required for this event.

Quantum mechanics is commonly said to be a theory of microscopic things: molecules, atoms, subatomic particles. Nearly all physicists, though, think it applies to everything, no matter what the size. The reason its distinctive features tend to be hidden is not a simple matter of scale. Over the past few years experimentalists have seen quantum effects in a growing number of macroscopic systems. The quintessential quantum effect, entanglement, can even occur in large systems as well as warm ones – including living organisms – even though molecular jiggling might be expected to disrupt entanglement.

Professor Vlatko Vedral, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies, will discuss his work on both the fundamental aspects of quantum physics as well as some potential applications to biology and technology.

This talk will be followed by a drinks reception, all welcome

A dreadful crime has been committed; so shocking we dare not speak its name. You are all suspects, but who done it? Join Science Oxford Live for an interactive evening of interrogation and intrigue as we explore how serial killers can be tracked and caught using a formula that would make even Sherlock Holmes look elementary.

The Serial Killer Formula has been adapted by biologist Steve Le Comber to track down everything from the migration of mosquitos to the foraging of bats. As with many serial killers, both species choose victims near their homes. So will you be caught with the candlestick in the cellar? You can run but you can’t hide…….

Book: http://www.cornerstone-arts.org/whats/serial-killer-formula

Climate change will impact upon freshwater resources in severe and often unpredictable ways. The impacts of climate change are compounded with increasing human demands for water and vulnerability to floods and droughts. Water institutions and infrastructure are targets for adaptation action.

Professor Jim Hall, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship, will ask what is the nature and scale of adaptation that might be required, and what are the limits to adaptation?

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Ever wondered how to lead your own social enterprise, business, or non-profit that really makes a difference?

Find the answers from guest speaker Sharon Jackson, founder and CEO of the European Sustainability Academy and member of the WISE programme supporting Women Innovators in Social Enterprise.

The future of biodiversity conservation is under increasing threat from both climate change and human impact. Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, will look at how rapid growth of climate change affects our ecosystems, how species’ will be forced to adapt to survive, and how we can reduce the effects of climate change on our planet.

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Most everything we know about climate change is bad. Most everything we don’t know makes it worse. Deep-seated uncertainty — often seen as an excuse for inaction — is, in fact, the best justification yet for strong, reasoned action. In this seminar Gernot Wagner will present his new book “Climate Shock” and explore tail risks, Black Swans and ‘unknown unknowns’ to argue why to act, and explores what would happen if we don’t. In particular, as much as the ‘free rider’ effects prevents us to take reasoned action today, the ‘free driver’ effect seems to lead us down the road to a geo-engineered planet.

About the Speaker: Gernot Wagner serves as lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He teaches energy economics as adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and served on the editorial board of the Financial Times as a Peter Martin Fellow, where he covered economics, energy, and the environment.