LEARNING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE

By Howard Kunreuther, Paul Slovic. 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us lessons that can guide key decision makers in both the private and public sectors toward slowing climate change by reducing CO2 emissions now. Howard Kunreuther and Paul Slovic explain how decision makers can design a risk management strategy that heeds the advice of experts and addresses the cognitive biases which obstruct effective action.

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• Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “A recent example is the human difficulty grasping exponential functions, which led to a dramatic failure in containing the Covid-19 pandemic (Kunreuther & Slovic, 2020).”