Interesting that you’ve got climate change in your global health and development work rather than with longtermism. What are the research plans for the climate change work at RP?
A note on why climate change is currently in our global health and development work rather than longtermism—the main reasons for this is that while we could consider longtermist work on climate change we do not think marginal longtermist climate change work makes sense for us relative to the importance and tractability of other longtermist work we could do. However, global health and development funders and actors are also interested in climate change in a way that does not funge much against longtermist money or talent, and the burden of climate change is felt heavily on lower and middle income countries. Therefore we think climate change work makes sense to explore relative to other global health and development opportunities.
Interesting that you’ve got climate change in your global health and development work rather than with longtermism. What are the research plans for the climate change work at RP?
A note on why climate change is currently in our global health and development work rather than longtermism—the main reasons for this is that while we could consider longtermist work on climate change we do not think marginal longtermist climate change work makes sense for us relative to the importance and tractability of other longtermist work we could do. However, global health and development funders and actors are also interested in climate change in a way that does not funge much against longtermist money or talent, and the burden of climate change is felt heavily on lower and middle income countries. Therefore we think climate change work makes sense to explore relative to other global health and development opportunities.
Hi James, thanks for your question. The climate change work currently on our research calendar includes:
A look at how climate damages are accounted for in various integrated assessment models
A cost effectiveness analysis of anti-deforestation interventions
A review of the landscape of climate change philanthropy
An analysis of how scalable different carbon offsetting programs are