Sunday Speaker: Infrastructure and Future Challenges - Danae Hernández-Cortés
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Sunday Speaker Topic: Infrastructure and its Future Challenges - Danae Hernández-Cortés
This talk explores the most pressing challenges of infrastructure in the context of the energy transition and the role of policy addressing some of these challenges.
In response to the global impacts of climate change, policymakers are looking to decrease global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieve carbon neutral economies. However, some of these policies face significant infrastructure challenges. To transition to a just and carbon neutral economy, we need to understand how energy policies interact with existing infrastructure and its potential future challenges under climate change. This talk will describe some of these challenges and examine the role of policy design to address them.
Bio:
Danae Hernández-Cortés is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sustainability and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in Arizona State University. Her research studies the distributional consequences of environmental policy and environmental justice. Her work uses applied causal inference methods with remote sensing techniques and atmospheric transport models to analyze the outcomes of different environmental policies in Latin America and the United States.
Professor Hernández-Cortés is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at emLab in the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Before joining ASU, she obtained her Ph.D. in Economics with an emphasis on environmental science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.A. in Economics from CIDE, Mexico City.
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