For those interested in the economics of climate change, Birmingham University's Economics department and the Institute for Energy Research and Policy are holding a one day workshop on The Economics of the Stern Review.
The purpose of this workshop is to understand why Stern emerges with policy prescriptions which appear to differ from those supplied by previous economic analyses of the climate change problem. Did earlier analyses neglect important aspects of the climate change problem which Stern has managed to address or has the economic and scientific literature upon which they relied moved on? Or is the case that the Stern Review itself is in some respects deficient? The workshop brings together leading members of the Stern Review, contributors to the Review process and economists who have been openly critical of the Stern Review.
It is billed as "an academic debate between the proponents and opponents of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change". The workshop takes place on Friday 9 March at 0930-1745.
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