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Measuring Development 2023: Mitigating the Risks and Impacts of Climate Change

May 4, 2023
Washington, DC
A technician uses a drone to measure methane emissions from a landfill in Senegal. Image by Leonardo Viotti.

A technician uses a drone to measure methane emissions from a landfill in Senegal.

Image by Leonardo Viotti.

Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a  of average global surface temperatures over the past century.  As the planet responds to rising emissions, extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent, distressing both natural and human systems. Researchers and practitioners need innovative analytical tools and data sources to understand how to mitigate the risks and impact of climate change on welfare.  COP27 ended with a compromise to sourced from developed countries to remedy climate change damages in low income and fragile contexts. This adds to the panoply of climate funds and financial tools geared toward broader action on climate change and the commitment of all development institutions to align their financing with the Paris Agreement. To make sure these investments maximize well-being and protect those who are most at risk, we need to assess not only what the damages would be and who would be most vulnerable, but also what mitigation and resilience strategies are most effective.

To this end, the World Bank¡¯s  Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department and  (DECAT) unit, the  (CEGA), and the University of Chicago¡¯s  (DIL) will host the ninth annual Measuring Development Conference (MeasureDev). The Mitigating the Risks and Impacts of Climate Change conference will convene researchers at the frontiers of physical and social sciences and decision-makers who influence humanity¡¯s responses to the challenges of climate change.  It will showcase innovative data sources and analytical techniques to better monitor emissions and appraise efforts to mitigate their consequences.  MeasureDev will feature a series of presentations, panel discussions, and lightning talks on novel applications of mobile data, satellite imagery, remote sensing technologies, and the computational approaches to make sense of the data to provide more granular, frequent, and accurate insights regarding our changing climate and actions to respond.  Participants will learn about the frontiers of measurement using these approaches and gain perspectives from leading academic and industry pioneers.

Featured Speakers

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St¨¦phane Hallegatte

Senior Climate Change Adviser, Climate Change, World Bank

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics, UC Santa Barbara

ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº's  department generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity. 

The  in the World Bank's Development Economics Data Group delivers data science products and analytical services to support World Bank lending and data operations.

The is the West Coast hub for research on global development, headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley. 

The University of Chicago¡¯s  is an affiliate of the Development Economics Center at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, which brings together scholars from across the UChicago community to address challenges to economic growth and political stability in developing countries.

Logos of CEGA (UC Berkeley), Development Economics VP (World Bank) and DIL (UChicago)