MdM Keynote Speaker Series 2023: "Adaptation to climate change: insights from the ENERGYA project", by Prof. Enrica De Cian

Prof. Enrica De Cian, from the Ca’ Foscari University (Italy), will be giving a keynote on “Adaptation to climate change: insights from the ENERGYA project”.  The seminar will take place at ICTA-UAB (room Z/023 - Z/022) on Tuesday, 18th of April 2023, from 12:00 to 13:00.

Our invited speaker will be available for discussion with ICTA-UAB researchers after the talk. You can also follow the event live by zoom (link below). 

 

MdM Keynote Speaker Series 2023

 

Title: “Adaptation to climate change: insights from the ENERGYA project”

Speaker:  Prof. Enrica De Cian,  Department of Economics - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)

 

Date: Tuesday, 18th of April 2023
Time: from 12:00 to 13:00
Online: Room Z/022 & Z/023 and online Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81099699301?pwd=cVBpK21obGE4VC84ZGNGdjNyNk5JQT09  ID de reunión: 810 9969 9301 - Código de acceso: 990915

 

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY and RESEARCH INTERESTS

Enrica De Cian is Professor in Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University  (Italy) and ERC Starting Grant grantee with the project ENERGYA – Energy use for Adaptation (www.energy-a.eu). She coordinates Ca’ Foscari’s PhDin Science and Management of Climate Change.  She is deputy coordinator of the research unit on Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy at Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) in Italy. 

She has collaborated with several research organizations in Europe (CEPS, ZEW) and in the US (JP at MIT, Boston University). In 2012, she was a visiting researcher at BU funded by the European Commission Global Marie Curie Research Fellowship. She has published in the fields of climate change economics, integrated assessment modelling, and energy economics.
 

TOPIC of the KEYNOTE

Climate change impacts are widespread, and billions of people are exposed to the risk of extreme heat events. As never before, the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC addresses the challenges of climate change in a world already undergoing some of the most rapid and significant societal and environmental changes in decades. Adaptation to climate change is one of the biggest challenges, especially if considering that the solution space is constrained by cultural, institutional, socioeconomic conditions, as well as by the risk of maladaptation.  In this talk I will present new results from the ERC-funded research project – ENERGYA – that has examined a leading example of a potentially dangerous form of adaptation, the adoption and utilization of air-conditioning. The presentation will go through three papers covering developed and developing countries.