G. Yohe
Wesleyan University, Economics, Faculty Member
- Gary W. Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. H... moreGary W. Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of more than 140 scholarly articles, several books, and many contributions to various media in their coverage of climate issues. Most of his work has focused attention on applying risk-based techniques to the mitigation and adaptation/impacts sides of the climate issue. Involved since the early 1990’s as a senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he received a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; he served as a Lead Author for four different chapters in the Third Assessment Report that was published in 2001 and as Convening Lead Author for the last chapter of the contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report that was published in 2007, and a Lead Author for two chapters for the Fifth Assessment Report that was published in 2014. In the last two Assessments, he also worked with Core Writing Teams to prepare the overall Synthesis Report of the three volume assessments. Professor Yohe has served as a member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change since its inception, and he was Vice Chair of the Third National Climate Assessment which was released by the White House in May of 2014.edit
ABSTRACT Consideration of how to respond to climate change frequently turns upon the evaluation of the undesirable consequences of some possible effect of that change. For coastal property, for example, sea level rise might inundate homes... more
ABSTRACT Consideration of how to respond to climate change frequently turns upon the evaluation of the undesirable consequences of some possible effect of that change. For coastal property, for example, sea level rise might inundate homes or cause salt water to intrude on sources of fresh water. In the agricultural sectors, hotter climates might cause crop yields to fall, with or without prudent adaptation. If we think of the consequences of climate change as the result of crossing a physically determined threshold, then it can be instructive to consider the probability of reaching that threshold under various states of the world. Initially ignoring the potential for adaptation can allow the research to focus on crops and growing regions where adaptation might be the most helpful. We begin with the notion that the probability of crossing a threshold can be a workable metric of vulnerability. This chapter will develop a uniformly applicable index to characterize probabilistically, the crossing of one or more thresholds. The vulnerability index accounts for uncertainty in our understanding of how the climate might be changing and uncertainty in our understanding of the consequences of climate change. A complementary index of sustainability is simply one minus the vulnerability index.
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Lead Authors: Marco Bindi (Italy), Sally Brown (UK), Ines Camilloni (Argentina), Arona Diedhiou (Ivory Coast/Senegal), Riyanti Djalante (Japan/Indonesia), Kristie L. Ebi (USA), Francois Engelbrecht (South Africa), Joel Guiot (France),... more
Lead Authors: Marco Bindi (Italy), Sally Brown (UK), Ines Camilloni (Argentina), Arona Diedhiou (Ivory Coast/Senegal), Riyanti Djalante (Japan/Indonesia), Kristie L. Ebi (USA), Francois Engelbrecht (South Africa), Joel Guiot (France), Yasuaki Hijioka (Japan), Shagun Mehrotra (USA/India), Antony Payne (UK), Sonia I. Seneviratne (Switzerland), Adelle Thomas (Bahamas), Rachel Warren (UK), Guangsheng Zhou (China)
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As states, cities, tribes, and private interests cope with climate damages and seek to increase preparedness and resilience, they will need to navigate myriad choices and options available to them. Making these choices in ways that... more
As states, cities, tribes, and private interests cope with climate damages and seek to increase preparedness and resilience, they will need to navigate myriad choices and options available to them. Making these choices in ways that identify pathways for climate action that support their development objectives will require constructive public dialogue, community participation, and flexible and ongoing access to science- and experience-based knowledge. In 2016, a Federal Advisory Committee (FAC) was convened to recommend how to conduct a sustained National Climate Assessment (NCA) to increase the relevance and usability of assessments for informing action. The FAC was disbanded in 2017, but members and additional experts reconvened to complete the report that is presented here. A key recommendation is establishing a new nonfederal “climate assessment consortium” to increase the role of state/local/tribal government and civil society in assessments. The expanded process would 1) focus ...
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The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is pleased to present the proceedings of its March 2009 workshop, Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: CostBenefit Analysis and Beyond. Even though significant uncertainties about... more
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is pleased to present the proceedings of its March 2009 workshop, Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: CostBenefit Analysis and Beyond. Even though significant uncertainties about future climate impacts remain, government decision‐making requires consideration of all economic costs and benefits if policies are to maximize the social benefits of regulatory decisions. This workshop was convened to explore the current state of the art in analyzing climate‐related benefits, its strengths and weaknesses, and ways to improve it. Placing a value on the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is quickly moving from the pages of academic journals and IPCC reports to the front burner in regulatory decision making. This policy revolution began with the growing acceptance of the science linking climate change to adverse impacts on public health and welfare and the potential catastrophic risks associated with continued greenhouse gas emi...
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Research Interests: Geography, Cartography, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Adaptation, and 15 moreClimatic Changes, Climate, Environmental Planning, Multidisciplinary, Global Warming, Planning, Environmental Resource Management, Extreme Value Theory, New York City, Floods, Climatic Change, Critical Infrastructure, Coastal Zone, Climate Warming, and Infrastructure Economics
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Scientific evidence accumulating over the past decade documents that climate change impacts are already being experienced in the US Northeast. Policy-makers and resource managers must now prepare for the impacts from climate change and... more
Scientific evidence accumulating over the past decade documents that climate change impacts are already being experienced in the US Northeast. Policy-makers and resource managers must now prepare for the impacts from climate change and support implementing such plans on the ground. In this paper we argue that climate change challenges the region to maintain its economic viability, but also holds some opportunities that may enhance economic development, human well-being, and social justice. To face ...
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Page 85. 1 Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Co-ordinating Lead Authors: TARIQ BANURI (PAKISTAN), JOHN WEYANT (USA) Lead Authors: Grace Akumu (Kenya), Adi I Najam (Pakistan), Luiz ...
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The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is pleased to present the proceedings of its March 2009 workshop, Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: CostBenefit Analysis and Beyond. Even though significant uncertainties about... more
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is pleased to present the proceedings of its March 2009 workshop, Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: CostBenefit Analysis and Beyond. Even though significant uncertainties about future climate impacts remain, government decision‐making requires consideration of all economic costs and benefits if policies are to maximize the social benefits of regulatory decisions. This workshop was convened to explore the current state of the art in analyzing climate‐related benefits, its strengths and weaknesses, and ways to improve it. Placing a value on the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is quickly moving from the pages of academic journals and IPCC reports to the front burner in regulatory decision making. This policy revolution began with the growing acceptance of the science linking climate change to adverse impacts on public health and welfare and the potential catastrophic risks associated with continued greenhouse gas emi...
Resilience has moved from being a peripheral ecological concept to a central goal, in the development discourse. While the concept has become popular, operationalizing resilience has been difficult. Many frameworks have been proposed to... more
Resilience has moved from being a peripheral ecological concept to a central goal, in the development discourse. While the concept has become popular, operationalizing resilience has been difficult. Many frameworks have been proposed to operationalize resilience but no common framework has been agreed upon. The present article demonstrates a step by step method to operationalize livelihood resilience analysis, for communities that are affected by climate change by taking the case of rural household livelihoods in villages around Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary in Central India. The article combines the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) with the Cross Scale Resilience Analysis (CSRA), as a way to operationalize resilience. The CSRA is found to be simple, systematic and applicable in diverse contexts. The systematic and holistic asset, process and institution-based analysis under the SLF, supports the CSRA by defining the system and identifying associated important shocks that affect the system. Through the analysis, it was realized that the impact of shifts in government policies on rural livelihoods is much greater than the impacts of climate change. The livelihood is worst affected when the shift in government policies coincides with impacts of climate change. The article argues that combining the SLF with the CSRA can provide a standardized method for livelihood resilience analysis of poor natural resource dependent communities in developing countries. Handling the dynamic nature of these complex adaptive social-ecological systems in the resilience analysis should be the next goal to tackle.
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... People can adjust to rising seas by constructing barriers and retreating. If these decisions are made rationally, the economic damages from rising seas fall dramatically. ... Property prices should, over the long term, reflect the... more
... People can adjust to rising seas by constructing barriers and retreating. If these decisions are made rationally, the economic damages from rising seas fall dramatically. ... Property prices should, over the long term, reflect the threat of gradually rising seas. 183 Page 198. ...
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... The Legacy of the Stern Review ... Key Words: Stern Review, climate change, climate policy, social discount rate; risk and equity aversion 1 Page 2. ...
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... systems, shifts in ranges and changes in aigai, plankton and fish abundance are ... row) for (i) continental regions: North America (NAM), Latin America (LA), Europe (BUR), Africa ... because the broader range of available models... more
... systems, shifts in ranges and changes in aigai, plankton and fish abundance are ... row) for (i) continental regions: North America (NAM), Latin America (LA), Europe (BUR), Africa ... because the broader range of available models suggests stronger climate-carbon cycle feed-backs. ...
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Bernstein, L.; Bosch, P.; Canziani, O.; Chen, Z.; Christ, R.; Davidson, O.; Hare, W.; Huq, S.; Karoly, D.; Kattsov, V.; Kundzewicz, ZW; Liu, J.; Lohmann, U.; Manning, M.; Matsuno, T.; Menne, B.; Metz, B.; Mirza, M.; Nicholls, N.; Nurse,... more
Bernstein, L.; Bosch, P.; Canziani, O.; Chen, Z.; Christ, R.; Davidson, O.; Hare, W.; Huq, S.; Karoly, D.; Kattsov, V.; Kundzewicz, ZW; Liu, J.; Lohmann, U.; Manning, M.; Matsuno, T.; Menne, B.; Metz, B.; Mirza, M.; Nicholls, N.; Nurse, L.; Pachauri, R.; Palutikof, J.; Parrry, M.; ...
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Causal attribution of recent biological trends to climate change is complicated because non-climatic influences dominate local, short-term biological changes. Any underlying signal from climate change is likely to be revealed by analyses... more
Causal attribution of recent biological trends to climate change is complicated because non-climatic influences dominate local, short-term biological changes. Any underlying signal from climate change is likely to be revealed by analyses that seek systematic trends across diverse species and geographic regions; however, debates within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveal several definitions of a 'systematic trend'. Here, we explore these differences, apply diverse analyses to more than 1,700 species, and show that recent biological trends match climate change predictions. Global meta-analyses documented significant range shifts averaging 6.1 km per decade towards the poles (or metres per decade upward), and significant mean advancement of spring events by 2.3 days per decade. We define a diagnostic fingerprint of temporal and spatial 'sign-switching' responses uniquely predicted by twentieth century climate trends. Among appropriate long-term/large-scale/multi-species data sets, this diagnostic fingerprint was found for 279 species. This suite of analyses generates 'very high confidence' (as laid down by the IPCC) that climate change is already affecting living systems.