Climate of the Middle

lt;p>Arjen Siegmann is research asssociate at the CDA Research Institute ("Wetenschappelijk Instituut voor het CDA"), associate professor of finance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and member of the executive board of the Wilfried Martens Centre for Economic Studies. He has written reports on long-term unemployment, the housing market and fiscal policy. In common projects with the Martens Centre and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, he has edited two books on the Middle Class in Europe. His academic research and teaching focuses on financial markets and institutions. He has been a council member at the city of Amstelveen, a researcher at the Netherlands Central Bank (DNB) and an advisor on strategic model development at Abn Amro Bank.

lt;p>Introduction into the project with the Martens Centre (policy institute of the European People's Party) about climate change.

1.       Policing or policies: Warming the middle class to the climate (Introduction)

Arjen Siegmann, VU Amsterdam, NL

2.       Perceptions of catastrophic risks

Wouter Botzen, VU Amsterdam, NL

3.       Determinants of belief in climate change.

David Leiser, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel & Pascal Wagner-Egger, University of Fribourg, Germany

4.       Apollo projects as amplification strategies

Hans von Storch, University of Hamburg, Germany

5.       Redefining the concept of profit in view of the circular economy

Jan Gooijer, VU Amsterdam, NL

6.       Follow the Joy. Looking for a better opponent to face greed in the fight for the Earth

Karl Kepler

7.       Sharing the waste: Shared responsibility of firms and government in recycling

Sytske Wijnsma, University of Cambridge, UK

8.       The green challenge for central banks and households

Dirk Schoenmaker, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL

9.       The long and dark shadow of (some) white swans

Francisco Estrada, Boston University, USA