Join Climate Conversations at the LINC Library Innovation Center hosted by the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) Greeley chapter. CCL is a non-partisan organization that promotes solutions to the current climate crises. The goal is to provide information on various topics surrounding climate issues, to show many sides of the discussion and to get citizens thinking about solutions and obtain a better understanding of the situation. Free and open to the public. Registeration is preferred. 

November 19 - Climate and economic growth.

This talk will provide an introduction to climate economics. We will cover four main topics. First, we will begin with the principles of microeconomics and how they inform our understanding of how consumers and companies make choices. Second, we will discuss environmental externalities or the conditions when markets break down and fail to capture societal costs like pollution damages. Third, we will talk about how climate change stems from markets failing to address externalities and why a global climate solution has failed to emerge. Finally, we will discuss how economists are working to estimate the costs of climate change and how those estimates can be used.