In a recently held Stockholm seminar, professor of sustainable development Claude Henry provided interesting new perspectives on the uncertainty that surrounds science, policy and indeed aspects beyond.Using climate change as an example, Henry argues that powerful deniers of change are denying scientific results and fabricating more uncertainty than actually exists because the results may hurt their particular interests. All this despite substantial scientific documentation aimed at reducing uncertainty.
About Claude Henry
Claude Henry is professor of sustainable development at IDDRI Sciences-Po Paris and at Columbia University. A physicist turned economist, his current research interests are in the field of the production and dissemination mechanisms of science and innovation.
His publications include evaluation of projects with significant ecological content, public services and public utilities economics and intellectual property mechanisms. Between 1997 and 2002 he also served in the Conseil d'Analyse Economique under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. He is a member ofAcademia Europea and of the French Academy of Engineering (“Academie des Technologies"), and Fellow of the Econometric Society.
