February 4, 2024
MEERTALK February 2024
The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios
Sandy Trust explains why commonly used models in financial services are underestimating climate risk, presenting the findings of a collaborative research paper between actuaries and leading climate scientists ‘The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios’, in a talk that will be in turns absurd, scary and hopeful.
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Dr. Ye Tao at Congreso Futuro
Dr. Tao was invited to attend Congreso Futuro in Santiago, Chile, where he presented on the topic "What Inspires Us." Dr. Tao discussed how in a just civilization, capable of longevity, we would want equality of opportunity as well as equal access to happiness, but also we would want to operate within the ecological limits of this planet.
January 16, 2023
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MEERTALK January 2023
Dr. Gulrez Shah Azhar explores mechanisms to mitigate the mortality effects of heatwaves. To generate appropriate local heat adaptation measures, he conducted sixteen in-depth interviews of academics, climate-health researchers, medical doctors, community activists, urban planners, and policy advisors with expertise in heatwaves and India.
January 7, 2023
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MEERTALK December 2022
THE APPALLINGLY BAD NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Professor Steve Keen, author, economist, and Distinguished Fellow of University College London's Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security talks about how economists made their own predictions of climate change damages using three spurious methods.
December 4, 2022
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