Call for participants and discussants for third workshop on Climate Ethics and Climate Economics

We are now looking for participants for our third workshop on Climate Ethics and Climate Economics: Fat Tails - Imposing and Redistributing Risks.

This workshop will focus on large-scale risks caused by climate change. In particular, we are interested in discussing theoretical, empirical and normative questions arising from large-scale risks and so-called "fat tail" risk distributions. The realizations that climate change may well be catastrophic and the probabilities of catastrophic outcomes difficult to quantify has shifted the debate towards more "precautionary" approaches. Debates about the most rational response to large scale risks and uncertainty should be complemented by a normative analysis of risk imposition: under which conditions, if any, is it permissible to impose such risks or redistribute them from one group to another? The workshop seeks to bring together economists, philosophers and practitioners to tackle these pressing questions.

The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics on 14-15 September 2016 and accompanied by public lectures on the evenings of 13 and 15 September.

Find out more about the workshop or register here. Priority will be given to participants willing to act as discussants.