This seminar is part of the Climate Cookies & Coffee series of the Belgian Climate Centre. This is a new seminar series launched by the Belgian Climate Centre to foster knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and interdisciplinary discussion among climate researchers.
For this edition, the Belgian Climate Centre will welcome Carles Mañó-Cabello (KU Leuven) with a presentation on "Climate Change under Inconsistent times".
This presentation will discuss the research paper on Climate Change and the consequences of having time-inconsistent agents.
The talk is based on endogenous growth models driven by innovation and knowledge to examine how time-inconsistency—specifically the tendency to procrastinate decisions—affects economic growth, natural resource extraction, and temperature. We look at the case with finite natural resources and consequent climate damages to compare the actions of 'naive' decision-makers with those making consistent intertemporal choices. The analysis investigates the specific conditions under which procrastination may (or may not) result in beneficial outcomes for climate change mitigation.
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