 I am at the upper part of the co-chair of this round table. I'm super excited to have so many of you here, Chris, and I'm really grateful to those of you who are joining online. I'm just here with like 30 seconds of background. I am a director of some kind of multiple project with his center at the chicken and I'm a senior fellow. And I'm a studies there. And before going to work things, I was chief economist. Let me, I'm going to take over Bob, who is my co-chair, who is joining us online, and then we'll move along with our study journey. Thank you, Wendy. I would say for we're getting a bit of a feedback on the line so hopefully the staff can sort that out quickly. So, my name is Bob Cop. I am a professor of Rutgers at Rutgers University. I'm a climate scientist. So I bring some climate expertise to the co-chair but Wendy is really our macroeconomics co-chair and I'm excited to have you all here today to kick off our first open round meeting of this round table. Okay, so I think I, so today's discussion is in open session. Today's discussion is in an open session. We have a lot marked into today. Tomorrow we'll be in closed session. So we'll have a lot to talk about tomorrow about the work that we're doing around people, but we're going to get a lot of information today from presenters. Before we begin, I'm going to take over to our round table director, Virginia Garner, for a reading note on some basic resistance. Thanks so much, Wendy. On behalf of the Academy, I just wanted to thank you all so much for being here today in person and online. My name is Brenda McGovern. I'm an associate program officer with the Board of Experienced Sciences and Climates and also the director for this round table. So before we get into the subcutive content of the meeting, I just want to start us off with some safety measures and logistics for the meeting. So for those of you that are in person here is a map of the NAS building. We are in the West Biden building in room 120. So the nearest emergency exit is immediately to the left, and you exit the room, and then go to the bathroom. So those of you who are going to go back through the West Corridor are going to go left at the gallery and they'll be down that hallway to go back. You can go then move it. Yeah, thank you. This is like the ongoing pandemic. I just want to briefly touch on our COVID policy to cure the economy. As you're all aware, you have to show your group of vaccination to enter the building. And for masks, we do follow the CDC and District of Columbia guidelines are masking about being sad. We do not recognize any of our buildings, but we are a map-friendly institution. If you forgot a mask, or you would like one, we do have a limited supply of A&M products at the registration table outside of a room, as well as the security desk. If you are feeling unwell and anybody can ask that you'll personally virtually. Next slide, please. So just some meeting logistics for those of you that are in the room, we do ask that you connect to Zoom, but make sure that your computer, audio, and the prompt. And you can also just leave the audio in line soon. And you can use the push and talk button at the mic in front of you. And then for our virtual participants, we do ask that you unmute yourself when you are not speaking. So that we can ensure that there are no distractions. For comments and questions for our regional members, we ask that you include the raise one feature, including for our in-person participation. So we can equalize the virtual in-person participation. For our public participants, you'll notice that the Zoom chat has been disabled, so please direct your questions for both staff and our mounting members and panelists to the Zoom Q&A. Next slide, please. And then lastly, I just want to mention our expectations for needed conduct. At the Academy, we are committed to fostering a professional, respectful, and inclusive environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. You can find the do's and don'ts of conduct and debriefing materials online. In the same briefing book, you can find the Academy's policy on harassment and bullying as well as the harassment in the same process. If you experience or witness behavior that appears to violate our public context, please notify me immediately so we can address it and we can contact them. If you feel more comfortable, you can also inform Bob or Wendy. And with that, I will turn it back over to Wendy. I do promise we are, you're just beginning to get into substance, and we do have a lot of great material, but it seems a very good use of our time to quickly go around and introduce ourselves and just offer one sentence of your affiliation. You already know. So why don't we do, one of you folks online first, and then we'll do folks on the table and then folks when they have time. I am, and I'm worried that I'm going to get confused about who's online and who's in person, but maybe I can read this out. So, why don't we go to Pete Wilcox and I'm an economist I work on energy and environmental policy and I'm at Syracuse University. Rachel. Hi, I'm Rachel Cletus. I'm also an economist. I work for the Union of Concerned Scientists based out of our Cambridge, Massachusetts office. And Chris. Hi everybody, Chris field. I'm based at Stanford and my research is in ecology, climate science. I mean, I'm. I mean, I'm a macro economist focus on monetary economics at UC Berkeley. Morning, everyone. I'm Laurie Hunter. I'm a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder and I study primarily population dynamics is related to climate. And I think you're online, which is funny because there's your name. Hi, my name is a bit of you. I'm an engineering professor at the University of Maryland College Park. I work in the area of risk analysis and engineering and economics. Tim Lenton. Good afternoon from the UK Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter climate scientist working on climate tipping points and positive tipping points in society. And Jason. I'm a professor at the Institute for environmental science and technology at the autonomous University of Barcelona and I work on ecological economics. Jim stock, a macro economist and working on climate economics issues and energy transition issues at Harvard University. And was that me. Sorry. I'm Satya Gopala Christian associate professor and environmental economist at Ohio State University. I study non market valuation and coupled human natural systems, particularly looking at coastal climate adaptation. And so, hi, my name is all show I'm at the University of California Berkeley and I work on the economic impacts climate change. What did I miss any of our participants who are joining us online. Good morning, everyone. My name is meeting time at the University of California at Santa Cruz and environmental studies departments, and I study just energy transitions and labor climate conditions. I don't know why I'm saying. Okay, so why don't we go around this way around the table and then we'll go around answer. Thanks for joining me. It's our medicine. Yes, I'm trying to figure it out. Hey, everyone, I'm Adele Morris with the Federal Reserve Board of Editors here in Washington. I'm a senior advisor in the division of financials Billy. I'm another woman and I lead the climate and climate program as well as local fund, one of the funders. Hi, I'm for you know, I'm a professor in the department of engineering and policy at the University and it was coordinating the authors for one of the chapters. Hi, I'm calling come up I am not Carla Trish rather is an ex official member, but I work in the department of energy and policy. And we let the modeling them form the US long term climate strategy organization pathways. I'm headed to shame and I'm a member of the president's council of economic advisors. Eric can predict the Stockholm environment Institute I'm a senior economist and director of equitable transitions program. I run the board on science technology and economic policy here at the National Academy. Hi, I'm on the other side of your senior director for climate efforts for the sciences. Okay, tell me why senior director for your science innovation policy. We're at Coleman tuning recently retired atmospheric scientists and currently serving as president of the American meteorological society. I'm the deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics at Treasury on the front of the door of Washington University where I run our research program and forecasting. Good morning, I'm Sonny Carter professor at Indiana University and my research focus on energy policy and energy justice. Good morning, everybody. I'm Joe Kyle and I'm the director of my analysis at the commercial life of us that are portfolio working on issues. Good morning, everybody. My name is Hannah Stewart and I'm an associate program officer with board on environmental change in society at the academies. Now with us today is the board director Tom Thorbin but he will be contributing to the ground table. So let's go ahead and jump in. I'm going to very briefly talk about what we're all doing here and what the purpose of the round table is. Very briefly. So we have a huge incredibly ambitious mandate to try and the way I see it, improve the communication and usefulness of the interactions between climate scientists and what science is know about what's going to happen over the next 10 years, 20 years, and how macroeconomists think about modeling the economy over that same time horizon. So, when I think macro, I think, you know, we're worried about being broad and aggregates, and so thinking about, you know, just like something like big slow moving things but have first order implications for how the macroeconomies when to inspire over time. And we'll hear today folks from end users, the folks at agencies that are actually doing the hard work to think about how to project the macroeconomy make really important policy decisions. And then, and we'll hear from climate scientists and we'll hear from macroeconomists about where they see the literature and where they see the biggest challenges and incorporating macro into their models. So before we, before we get to that. No. Okay, good. Good morning. I'm Marcia McNutt. And although I regret I can't join you in person. I'd really like to welcome you to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. I'm personally very excited to see this round table on macroeconomics and climate related risks and opportunities get underway. As you may know, the National Academies were created to provide expert advice on the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world. I think it's fair to say that climate change is among one of the most serious challenges that the nation and world have ever faced. The challenges of climate change are already being felt by millions of people with potentially devastating implications for the environment, our economy, human health, and our overall well being. Clearly, the work of this round table is of critical importance. I think this round table is an excellent example of how we at the National Academies are working to galvanize action toward a more resilient and more sustainable future. First, we are working to break down disciplinary silos that confound comprehensive solutions. The cross-disciplinary expertise assembled in this group is impressive. I'm excited to see what new insights emerge from your discussions. And second, we're aiming to be more nimble in converting science into actions. That's why it's so important to have partners from critical government agencies and from the private sector as members of this round table. We hope that your active engagement will ensure that new research priorities identified by the round table effectively meet your needs. At the same time, we hope that being part of these discussions and having the opportunity to regularly engage with researchers will accelerate the incorporation of research findings into policy and practice. I'm also pleased to see that we have many participants at this meeting in addition to the round table members. We hope that the round table conversations and activities can bring together a much wider set of experts. A lot of work to be done to advance our understanding of how climate change in the transition to a lower carbon economy will affect our macroeconomy. We need a broad, multidisciplinary cadre of experts to take on this challenge. Let me close by thanking the sponsors of this activity for their support and thanking each of you for giving your time, ideas, and enthusiasm to this effort. I'm confident that this round table will yield important and impactful advances in our knowledge of policy and practice. I'm looking forward to watching your progress and thank you very much for all your hard work today. So, all right. So we are going to move to our next panel. The ideal is to have our panelists and our moderator up in the front. Does that work unless somebody wants to let us raise a significant objection? No, okay. So, we'll move over to the next panel. It seems a little, you know, like for me, I think it's going to be more talkative, but it didn't occur to me that we're probably going to have a lot of pressure, but I don't know. Thank you guys, and I want to encourage the other panelists. We're just right here. Excellent. So I'm going to go over to Brad, who's going to be our moderator. Thank you for that.