Recording of public pre-event with Esther Duflo

3 June 2021

The livestream of the GUC public pre-event has taken place on 1 June 2021 from 4:30–6:15 pm on this web page.

Chapter markers for the video:

00:00:00 Welcome by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Lenzen
00:04:08 Welcome by Dr. Barbara Hans
00:06:30 Keynote Speech by Esther Duflo, PhD + Q&A
00:52:33 Dialogue Session

Go to video with closed captions

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo has given a lecture titled “Good Economics for Warmer Times,” in which she outlined opportunities for tackling climate change and its consequences.

After her talk, she joined in a discussion with Professor Peter-André Alt, President of the German Rectors’ Conference, Professor Pam Fredman, President of the International Association of Universities, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa and Professor Detlef Stammer, Chair of the World Climate Research Programme Joint Scientific Committee and Chair of the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), Universität Hamburg, Germany.