Agenda
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Registration and breakfast
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Introduction and opening statements (conveners)
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Opening session and keynote speaker
Climate impacts and adaptation need political economists: Bob Kopp, Climate Impact Lab Director and Professor at Rutgers University
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
Coffee break
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
Parallel paper session I
- Determinants of climate attitudes and behaviors (World Forum)
- Climate policymaking and the private sector (Global Policy Lab)
- Climate and conflict (Conference Room)
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Keynote speaker
Zinta Zommers, IPCC Working Group II Vice Chair
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Parallel paper session II
- Clientelism, patronage, and distributive politics (World Forum)
- Comparative and international political economy perspectives on climate politics (Global Policy Lab)
- Climate and gender (Conference Room)
5:00 PM – 5:20 PM
Campus walk to Penn Museum
5:20 PM – 7:00 PM
Poster session and reception at Penn Museum
Papers
*Presenting co-authors are noted in bold
Determinants of climate attitudes and behaviors (chaired by Todd Eisenstadt)
Alexander F. Gazmararian and Lewis Krashinsky: “Driving Labor Apart: Climate Policy Backlash in the American Auto Corridor”
Martin Alberdi: “Building Eco-Wealth: How Climate Subsidies Shape Support for the Greens”
Dongil Lee, Inbok Rhee, and David Sungho Park: “Balancing Global Climate Action and Local Rights: Survey Experimental Evidence on Public Support for Carbon Offsetting in Liberia”
Nikhar Gaikwad, Aura Gonzalez, and Steven Wilkinson: “The Determinants of Popular Support for Environmental Policy in India”
Clientelism, patronage, and distributive politics (chaired by Xun Cao)
Julien Labonne and Pablo Querubin: “Climate Change and Local Political Dynamics: Climate Shocks and the Support for Clientelistic and Traditional Elites”
Yifan (Flora) He: “How Does Patronage Drive Deforestation in Bolivia?”
Saad Gulzar, Aliz Toth, and Anzony Quispe: “Paper to Digital: Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Land Reform”
Silvia Pianta and Paula Rettl: “Global Harms, Local Profits: How the Uneven Costs of Natural Disasters Affect Support for Green Political Platforms”
Climate policymaking and the private sector (chaired by Liam Bieser-McGrath)
Calvin Thrall and Noah Zucker: “Public or Private? Demand Shocks and the Market for Climate Experts”
Lily Hsueh: “The Multilevel Political Economics of Corporate Environmentalism: Climate Disclosures in the Age of ESG Reporting”
Dahyun Choi: “Teaming Up Across Political Divides: Evidence from Climate Regulations”
Mengying Xie and Ling Chen: “Why Do Firms Participate in Voluntary Carbon Markets? A Multi-level Framework of Global Private Governance”
Comparative and international political economy perspectives on climate politics (chaired by Cleo O’Brien-Udry)
Lingbo Zhao: “Supply Chains and Political Strategies: Analyzing Firm Responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”
Anthony Calacino, Hayley Pring, and Federica Genovese: “Offshore Outlaws: Regulatory Competition and Oil Spills in the North Sea”
Aseem Mahajan and Robert Kubinec: “Green Sheen or True Green? Unveiling the Advertising Tactics of Oil Giants”
Florent Pepin-Proulx: “The Politics of Transferable Skills and Energy Transition”
Climate and conflict (chaired by Vally Koubi)
William G. Nomikos and Patrick Hunnicutt: “Peacekeeping the Commons: International Intervention and Conflict in a Climate-Changed World”
Jiyoung Kim: “Drought of Tolerance: Climate Change and intergroup conflict in Africa”
Garrett Albistegui Adler: “Can Social Safety Nets Prevent Climate-Related Conflict? Evidence from Ethiopia”
Climate and gender (chaired by Sarah Anderson)
Shelley Liu and Alice Xu: “Weathering the Storm: Climate Impacts on Informal Labor Formalization”
Boyoon Lee, Guilherme Fasolin, and Ted Hsuan Yun Chen: “Natural Hazards Threat and Early Marriage for Women and Girls”
Sarah Bush, Amanda Clayton, and Elizabeth Nugent: “Economic Diversification, Gendered Anxiety, and Regime Stability in the Arabian Gulf”
Holly Jansen: “Natural Disasters and the Electability of Women: Evidence from Philippine Mayoral Elections”
Posters
Emily Warwick: “The Politics of Environmental Vulnerability: Risk, Informality, and the Right to Housing in Brazil”
Magdalena Larreboure: “Climate Policy Reaction to Natural Disasters”
Zarlasht Muhammad Razeq and Amelia Santos-Paulino: “Dirty investments? The effect of FDI on the carbon footprint of global trade”
Ryan Pike: “Greening in Groups: Firm Proximity and Support for Green Industrial Policy”
Emma Willoughby: “Constructing a “Wet Market”: Political and Economic Insights from Vietnam”
Peter Wyckoff: “Cap and Trade to the IRA: high-emitting jobs and climate policy in the US Congress from 2009 to 2022”
Lingbo Zhao: “Supply Chains and Political Strategies: Analyzing Firm Responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”
Salma Emmanuel and Dylan Groves: “The Effect of Climate Change News on Public Opinion About the Environment”
Helene Benveniste, Andrew Moravcsik, and Michael Oppenheimer: “Why Would Aspirational Goals Matter? Using the History of Global Environmental Governance to Set Expectations for the Paris Agreement”
Cindy Ragab: “Can climate adaptation break the chains of extreme poverty?”
Gail J. Buttorff, Yuhsin Annie Hsu, Yewande Olapade, María P. Perez Arguelles, Pablo M. Pinto, Savannah L. Sipole, Agustín Vallejo and M. C. Sunny Wong: “Natural Disasters and Willingness to Pay for Public Goods: Winter Storm Uri as a Natural Experiment”
Joshua A. Basseches: “Utility Sector Structure as a Poorly Understood Factor in U.S. State- Level Renewable Energy Policy Design”
Sarah Brooks, Santiago Lacroix Eussler, and Erik Voeten: “Geopolitics, Environmentalism, and the Green Transition: The Race for Lithium in Latin America”
Gabriel Granjo, Juliana Camargo, and Eduardo Mello: “Reconciling Road Building and Forest Conservation in the Amazon”