Conference Agenda

This session will revolve around the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and will cover a number of items. The session will start by introducing the main challenges of the triple planetary crisis and of policy responses to address it. Research gaps in the area of environmental and natural resources economics to inform policy responses will then be highlighted. Following these introductory items, the main biophysical interlinkages between climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, their economic drivers and consequences will be emphasized. Then, interactions across policies introduced to respond to each crisis separately will be discussed, notably synergies and trade-off across policies. Finally, the session will conclude by describing economic modelling approaches that are used to quantify the interactions between environmental and economic systems and measure the impact of various policy scenarios.

Speakers:

Damien Dussaux, OECD

Toon Vandyck, OECD

Shardul Agrawala, OECD

Stephen White, European Commission

Martin Quaas, University of Leipzig and Head of the Biodiversity Economics Group at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Elke Stehfest, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency