Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Econometrics and Statistics Workshop:
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change

Exceptionally held in Room 1027 IAB
Friday 17 November 2000
9.45am Introduction
10am David Rind, NASA Goddard Institute
"What do we know and don't know about the climate system that impacts our ability to make regional climate projections?"
11am Upmanu Lall, Dept of Earth & Environmental Engineering and Columbia Earth Institute
"Modes of Interannual to Century scale climate variability and their manifestation in hydrologic extremes"
12pm Prajit Dutta, Department of Economics, Columbia
"A strategic analysis of global warming"
Joint with Roy Radner
Calibration and Discussion: Satyajit Bose
1pm Lunch
2.00pm Bob Newton, Columbia Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
"The Arctic Ocean Response the Climate Change: Application of dynamical models and trace chemical observations"
3pm Arthur Small, SIPA, Columbia
"Irreversibility and option value in relation to climate change"
Joint with Geoffrey Heal
3.45pm Robert Kast, EHESS, CNRS Aix-Marseille, France
"Financial instruments to cope with uncertainty in climactic change"
4.30pm Coffee Break
5.00pm François Benaroya, Ministère des Finances, France
"Making sense of the Precautionary Principle"
5.40pm Claude Henry, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, France
General Discussion
6.00pm End of Conference
7.00pm Conference Dinner

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