Agenda
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM
Registration and breakfast
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Introduction and opening statements (conveners)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Opening session and keynote speaker
New frontiers in climate data: Bob Kopp, Climate Impact Lab Director and Professor at Rutgers University
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Parallel paper session I
- Determinants of climate attitudes and behaviors
- Climate policymaking and the private sector
- Climate and conflict
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Keynote speaker
Zinta Zommers, IPCC Working Group II Vice Chair
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Coffee break
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Parallel paper session II
- Clientelism, patronage, and distributive politics
- Comparative and international political economy perspectives on climate politics
- Climate and gender
5:00 PM – 5:20 PM
Campus walk to Penn Museum
5:20 PM – 7:30 PM
Poster session and reception at Penn Museum
Papers
*Presenting co-authors are noted in bold
**This list is subject to change
Determinants of climate attitudes and behaviors
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
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
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
Jana Grittersova , Eleonora Mavroedi, and Murilo Silva: “Fifty Shades of Green: Central Bank Communication about Climate Change and Financial Markets”
Anthony Calacino and Hayley Pring: “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
William G. Nomikos and Patrick Hunnicutt: “Peacekeeping the Commons: International Intervention and Conflict in a Climate-Changed World”
Blair Welsh, Nicholas Haas, and Prabin B. Khadka: “The Awareness, Politicization, and Prioritization of Climate Change in Displaced Communities: Evidence from Somalia”
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
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”