University of Tartu and the ENBEL project is organising a workshop on external costs of climate change for policymakers and stakeholders.

The event will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, but can also be attended online.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Hans.Orru@ut.ee

NB: Times here listed in CEST.

8:30-8:45

Introduction to the topic and the workshop
Hans Orru, University of Tartu

8:45-9:00

What are external costs and how to assess them

Hedi Katre Kriit, Umea University

9:00-9:15 Estimating the costs of climate change: valuing mortality risk

Hannah Hess, Rhodium Group’s Energy & Climate practice

9:15-9:30

Heat waves and their costs to health – preliminary EXHAUSTION insights

Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University

9:30-9:40 Introduction to the Roundtable session
Bettina Koelle and Fleur Monasso, Climate Centre

9:40-10:45 Roundtable sessions*

10:45-11 :00 Wrap-up by session leaders and discussions
Hans Orru, University of Tartu

Bettina Koelle and Fleur Monasso, Climate Centre

* This will be a structured conversational process for knowledge sharing in which groups of people discuss a topic at several small tables. All workshop participants will be involved in the sessions. All groups will discuss all four topics (each ~15 min). See topics below:

• Actual health-care cost or willingness to pay – what is better indicator of costs

• How cost-effective are mitigation and adaptation measures

• How external costs concept could be integrated into policies

• How to make public better understand the costs of climate change