Poverty & Climate Change - Discussion Evening - Effective Altruism Rotterdam

(this meetup will be held in English)

Every 2nd month we invite you to take a deep dive with us around a specific Effective Altruism (EA) topic. This evening we will discuss Poverty & Climate Change.

Everyone is welcome to join (no EA experience required). Below are some of the questions that we will discuss. We will also invite an expert who can help us with questions. At the end of the evening we hope you will go away inspired and armed with extra knowledge.

Starting Questions:

• What is the (future) impact of Climate Change on Poverty?
• How will Climate Change affect the world's poorest?
• How can we measure this impact?
• What can we do to prevent/mitigate this?
• What are the most effective interventions to combat (the effect of) Climate Change?
• and more that we will discuss then

Starting/Preparation reading/watching:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4H1N_yXBiA (Climate Change in 3 minutes)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU (Veritasium on Climate Change in 7 minutes)
• https://www.ipcc.ch/ (Climate Change model)
• https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/global-warming-impacts-india-be-huge (impact on India)
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/31/suicides-of-nearly-60000-indian-farmers-linked-to-climate-change-study-claims (impact on suicide in India)
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210600615300277
  s_cid=mm6525a1_w?ftag=MSFd61514f (impact on suicide in India)
• https://models.pbl.nl/image/index.php/IMAGE_framework (Global Development model)
• https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/desertification-and-drought (Drought)

Some more links for the interested:

• https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/trade-offs-and-synergies-between-universal-electricity-access-and-climate-change-mitigation-in-sub-saharan-africa
• https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/people-and-the-earth
• https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2012/roads-from-rio20
• https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/global-environment-outlook-5
• https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-5/
• http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/climate-change-and-human-development

This session is the second one that works on making our Systems Map (an interconnected map of Effective Altruism causes). Again, no experience is needed to join the evening.