The MIT Great Climate Policy Debate

MFSA's fourth debate brings together a premier group of scientists and policy experts for a debate on the cost-effectiveness of global net-zero decarbonization. 

On November 14, the MIT Free Speech Alliance  will host the fourth in our series of campus debates at MIT.  We will be partnering with a student group, the MIT Open Discourse Society, to present this program to the community, and we will be joined by 20 additional co-sponsoring organizations. The following resolution is on the table for debate:

Resolved, The total cost of global net-zero decarbonization by the latter half of this century is well worth the projected global benefits.

Moderating this fall's debate is John Tomasi , President of Heterodox Academy former Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University.

The Affirmative Team will be Kerry Emanuel, MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science and co-founder of MIT’s Lorenz Center, and Robert Pindyck, MIT Sloan School Professor of Economics and Finance and past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

The Negative Team will be  Steven Koonin, Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Under Secretary for Science, and Mark Mills, Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering.