The event is hosted by SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project, headed by economist Willi Semmler and generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

It is no surprise that global warming will disproportionately affect countries with hot climates, which includes most low-income countries. However, new IMF research shows that a rise in temperature lowers a countries’ per capita output over the long term. It reduces agricultural output, suppresses worker productivity, slows investment, and damages health.

Petia Topalova, deputy division chief at the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Research Department, will join SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change speaker series to discuss these findings and the necessary policy recommendations to help these countries cope with the adverse consequences of weather shocks and global warming. This includes investment in adaptation strategies as well as the sustained commitment of the international community in supporting low-income countries’ efforts to cope with climate change—a global threat to which they have contributed little.

The lecture will be followed with closing remarks by Prem Shankar Jha, economist, writer and journalist, on the developing world’s progress on the use of renewable energy.

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Speakers:

- Petia Topalova
Deputy Division Chief, Research Department, International Monetary Fund
Former Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

- Prem Shankar Jha
Economist, writer and journalistColumnist, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times and The Times of India, among others
Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Harvard University and Nuffield College, Oxford
Former Information Advisor to the Prime Minister of India

Location:
Hoerle Lecture Hall - University Center, U L105
63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm