Day 1

Sunday, 12 Jan 2020

9:00 - 9:15: Gathering at the Faculty Club, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Rehovot

9:15 - 9:30: Opening and welcome

Aliza Fleischer, Vice-Dean for International Affairs, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Benny Chefetz, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

9:30 – 10:00: Resource management under catastrophic threats: an overview

Yacov Tsur and Amos Zemel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

10:00 – 10:45: Harnessing and Managing Natural Resource Windfalls

Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45: Chair: David Zilberman, 2019 Wolf Prize Winner, University of California, Berkeley

· The value of biodiversity as an insurance device

Katheline Schubert, Paris School of Economics

· Misfortunes never come singly: Environmental risks, policy uncertainty, and economic growth

Lucas Bretschger, ETH Zürich

· Exogenous vs endogenous risk in the management of catastrophes

Eric Naevdal, Frisch Centre, Norway

12:45 – 13:45: Lunch (on site)

13:45 – 14:30: Tipping points, delays, and the control of catastrophes

Matti Liski, Aalto University, Finland

14:30 – 16:00: Chair: Amir Heiman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

· Carbon Capture and Storage with Enhanced Recovery

Cees Withagen, VU University Amsterdam

· Carbon sequestration in the land Biosphere: local research global implications

Dan Yakir, 2019 Israel Prize winner, Weizmann Institute of Science

· Global warming and the associated tendency to extreme weather

Pinhas Alpert, Tel Aviv University

16:00 – 16:15: Coffee break

16:15 – 17:15: Chair: Ayal Kimhi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

· Climate-smart agriculture, catastrophic risks and technology

David Zilberman, University of Californian, Berkeley

· Valuing meteorological services in resource-poor settings,

Alexandra Brausmann, ETH Zürich

17:15 – 18:30: Panel: Environmental policy under threats of climate change induced catastrophes

Moderator: Yacov Tsur, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Panelists: David Zilberman, Katheline Schubert, Rick van der Ploeg, Matti Liski, Lucas Bretschger, Aliza Fleischer,Cees Withagen.

Day 2

Monday, 13 Jan 2020

07:00 - 19:00 : A tour of interesting/religious sites in Israel.