Deep Climate Conversations: Los Angeles Fires and Climate Change

[Hadden, Jennifer]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us for the next session of the Environmental Politics and Governance Network's "Deep Climate Conversations" on Thursday, February 13th  at 12pm EST.  

The topic is: The Los Angeles Fires and Climate Change

To receive the Zoom link, you will need to register in advance here (https://brown.zoom.us/meeting/register/2RRMZNBNSz-FxioiMSor4Q).  

We will focus on four questions:

1. Have the LA fires shifted the climate debate? Does the scale of loss increase attention to adaptation issues? 
2. What policy failures contributed to the LA fires? What important lessons need to be learned? 
3. LA fires demonstrate the multifaceted nature of the climate crisis: for example, its connection with the housing crisis. What are the avenues for reforming the home insurance markets while addressing the moral hazard problem from risk-premium mismatch, as well as the economic impact of sharply increasing premiums?
4. LA fires raise the question of how to rebuild, placing disaster recovery at the front and center of climate debates. The political pressure is to rebuild quickly, even to suspend environmental laws, but this quick rebuild may not increase resilience to future fires. What are the good models of handling this trade off? 

 

We hope that you will be able to attend.

Jennifer Hadden and Aseem Prakash

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Jennifer Hadden

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Brown University

Office: Room 319, 111 Thayer Street

www.jenniferhadden.com