Extreme Events Impact Attribution: what is it good for? | Ian Noy

lan Noy is the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Professor of Economics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy. His research and teaching focus on the economic aspects of hazards, disasters, and climate change, and related topics. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, published by Springer.

Abstract

Extreme weather events lead to many adverse societal, economic, and environmental consequences. Anthropogenic climate change has already increased the frequency and intensity of some of these events, and this link has been quantified by Extreme Event Attribution (EEA). EEA is an approach that quantifies the extent to which climate change affected specific extreme weather events that have already occurred. EEA can be combined with socio-economic impact data to quantify these extreme weather events’ impacts that are attributable to climate change. This Extreme Event Impacts Attribution (EEIA) is a quickly developing field that can potentially answer a wide range of questions about the impacts of climate change. In this talk, we will describe the EEIA approach, demonstrate some of its uses, speculate about where it can go, and identify some of its limitations.

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