ISTP News

Our next colloquium talk will take place online on Tuesday, 13th October 2020, at 5pm. The invited guest speaker, Dr. Bjarne Steffen will talk about the role of finance in climate policy. Mitigating dangerous climate change requires a rapid transition of economies towards low-carbon technologies. Bjarne Steffen will elaborate on the interplay between interest rates and the politics of emissions trading.

A recent publication on PS: Political Science & Politics by ETH Prof. David Kaufmann and Prof. Mara Sidney from Rutgers University-Newark on urban policy-making. This symposium suggests that to understand contemporary societal transformation — and political and policy processes more generally — the policies that cities create and implement are essential objects of study.

(Repost from ETH Zukunftsblog) The Paris Agreement relies on voluntary and therefore weak commitments. But contrary to popular belief, if some countries “free-ride”, this does not undermine the commitment of others, writes Thomas Bernauer.

(Repost from ETH News) Will climate change, as often claimed, indeed result in large-scale human migration, notably from poor to rich countries? Vally Koubi and Thomas Bernauer answer.