Firewood market, Lalibela

John Broome (Oxford)

Quand :
20 mars 2014 @ 16:00 – 18:00
2014-03-20T16:00:00-04:00
2014-03-20T18:00:00-04:00
Où :
Z-205 Pavillon Claire-McNicoll
Université de Montréal
2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4
Canada

Présentation intitulée: Climate change: life and death.

Abstract:

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to prevent ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system’. Interference is dangerous if it creates a risk of very bad consequences, so to know what is dangerous we need to set a value on the possible consequences of climate change. The consequences include shortening human lives, and perhaps a collapse of our population. How do we evaluate those?