Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change

On Thursday, January 10th, 2008, Professor Robert Mendelsohn, Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, shared his thoughts at this World Bank event on climate change impacts and adaptation. 

Professor Mendelsohn is a leading authority on the economics of climate change and policy. Over the last decade, he has developed insightful techniques for measuring the impacts from climate change that capture adaptation. Results of his research have been used to calibrate global impact models that predict the consequences of various climate scenarios. This research finds that climate change will hit low latitude countries especially hard but the net harmful effects of climate change will only become evident in the second half of this century. 

Event discussants included Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development; Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank; and Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings Institution.  
The discussion was moderated by Apurva Sanghi, Senior Economist, World Bank.