FAECTOR Green Days | Sustainable Econometrics Talks
Are you interested in how econometrics can be used in the field of sustainability? Join the speakers session where three speakers will explain how they use econometrics in their work to do their part in the green transition!
The event will be hosted by prof.dr. Elbert Dijkgraaf. He is academic director of the master Economics of Sustainability. Furthermore, he is chairman of the supervisory board of Wageningen University and member of several other supervisory board and advising committees. He is driven by the desire to assist in navigating the transitions necessary for achieving a sustainable future.
The speakers are:
dr. Oswaldo Morales-Nápoles: He is Associate Professor of probabilistic design and head of the section Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk at the department of Hydraulic Engineering of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology (TUD). He was affiliated to the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) from 2009 to 2015 where he led a research group on graphical models for risk and reliability. His research includes the use of Bayesian Networks and vine-copulas for characterisation of environmental loads, such as extreme wave heights, extreme river discharges and. extreme precipitation under climate change. These estimations are used for enhancing the sustainable design of safe and reliable infrastructure under climate change.
Machiel Zwanenburg: He is Portfolio Manager Quantitative Equities at Robeco. One of his areas of expertise is sustainability integration within quantitative equities. While sustainability integration is by no means limited to any particular investment approach, quant strategies have shown to be especially suitable for this. Their rules-based nature makes it relatively easy to integrate additional quantifiable variables in the security selection and portfolio construction processes. This enables clients to achieve both their financial and sustainability goals. He holds a Master's in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In his talk he’ll focus on how sustainability objectives can be incorporated in quantitative strategies, distinguishing between financial materiality and impact materiality.
dr. Marina Friedrich: She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Data Science at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. Before, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. In her research, she applies econometric methods to climate data, for example, to help understand trending patterns in atmospheric gases such as ethane, CFC-11 and fluorine. She also works on the extension of existing econometric tools to better handle certain characteristics of climate data as well as making tools more accessible to climate scientists.
After the talks, there will be room for questions. Afterwards, there will be free drinks and snacks in the Theil hall until 18:00.
YOUR PARTICIPATION MAKES IMPACT!
When you sign up for an event, we will donate €5 to a sustainable charity of your choice from the list. The charities are:
1. The Ocean Cleanup: We develop and scale technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. Our cleaning technologies are deployed around the world as we conduct the largest cleanup in history.
2. Carbon Gap: Carbon Gap is an organisation focusing on scaling up just and effective carbon dioxide removals in the EU. Removing excess carbon from the atmosphere, along with rapidly reducing emissions, are essential to ensure a safer climate.
3. Good Food Institute: The Good Food Institute is an international network of organisations working to accelerate alternative protein innovation. GFI is building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative.
4. Project InnerSpace: Engineering geothermal’s global, exponential growth by 2030. We aim to unlock global exponential growth of geothermal by facilitating the rapid transfer of resources, technologies, and know-how from the oil and gas industry toward geothermal energy production.