White House Officials Join NASEM Panel On Macroeconomic Climate Risk

November 2, 2022
Top White House and other agency officials are joining a new National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) group to assess the effects that climate change will have on the broader U.S. economy, the latest effort to bolster the Biden administration’s response to the financial system’s exposure to climate-related risks. NASEM’s “Roundtable on Macroeconomic and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities” met for the first time Oct. 31. The White House in a Nov. 1 readout said the group aims to...

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