Edouard PIGNEDE

Postdoctoral researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), member of the UMI SOURCE (University Paris-Saclay). Edouard is an applied environmental and development economist. His research focuses on the adaptation to climate change and the exploitation of natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Title of the presentation: Climate change, adaptation, and mortality

Abstract: How spatial frictions exacerbate the mortality burden of climate change? This paper measures the impact of climate change on mortality and assesses the effectiveness of adaptation policies to mitigate it. I first provide empirical evidence of households’ adaptation and labor productivity loss due to the health-related impact of climate change. Using these facts, I developed a dynamic quantitative spatial model of trade and migration to assess the impact of future climate change on mortality due to undernutrition, malaria, and direct heat exposure. By 2050, 350,000 additional deaths could be attributable to climate change, in particular due to the increase in undernutrition and the expansion of malaria-suitable zones. A counterfactual scenario shows that the reduction of country barriers to migration could significantly reduce the climate-induced mortality from undernutrition.

Email: edouard.pignede@gmail.com