The MIT Great Climate Policy Debate
Date/Time
11/14/2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern
Event Type(s)
MIT Free Speech Alliance Event
Event Description
MFSA's fourth debate brings together a premier group of scientists and policy experts for a debate on the cost-effectiveness of global net-zero decarbonization.
Location
Setting: In-Person
Wong Auditorium (Tang Center, Building E51)
2 Amherst St
Cambridge, MA 02142
UNITED STATES
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Wong Auditorium (Tang Center, Building E51)
2 Amherst St
Cambridge, MA 02142
UNITED STATES
click here for Google Maps
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Details
This will be the fourth in the MIT Free Speech Alliance great debate series. This event will be co-hosted by the student MIT Open Discourse Society.
Affirmative Team: Kerry Emanuel, MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science and co-founder of MIT’s Lorenz Center, and Robert Pindyck, MIT Sloan School Professor of Economics and Finance and past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Negative Team: Steven Koonin, Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Under Secretary for Science, and Mark Mills, Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering.
Moderator: John Tomasi, former Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University and President of the Heterodox Academy.
RESOLVED: The total cost of global net-zero decarbonization by the latter half of this century is well worth the projected global benefits.
Affirmative Team: Kerry Emanuel, MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science and co-founder of MIT’s Lorenz Center, and Robert Pindyck, MIT Sloan School Professor of Economics and Finance and past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Negative Team: Steven Koonin, Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Under Secretary for Science, and Mark Mills, Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering.
Moderator: John Tomasi, former Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University and President of the Heterodox Academy.
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