LSE Environment Week 2024
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E-Week 2024 Programme
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LSE Events Autumn Term Leaflet.pdf
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Achieving a sustainable balance between human activity and the natural environment while maintaining economic growth will require innovation. We need to make economic growth cleaner, control environmental externalities, and protect human populations from environmental change. To identify and explore these innovations, LSE Environment Week and Camp bring together researchers from all fields of economics—including development, macroeconomics, industrial organisation, public, finance, labour, trade, urban, theory, behavioural, and political economy—as well as environmental, energy, and climate experts.
The E-Week 2024 event programme is attached above.
Recordings of the day sessions and master lectures are available on the IGC youtube channel.
Please visit the LSE Environment Week website for more information about the conference.
You can find more information about the three public events and recordings below.
Innovative market solutions to confront climate change
Jonathan Leape
Executive Director, IGC and Associate Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Teddy Mugabo
Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Green Fund
Basak Odemis
Carbon Finance Lead, International Finance Corporation
Rohini Pande
Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale UniversityLarge investments are needed to confront climate change. Current levels are far below what is required. Bridging this investment gap rests on harnessing both public and private climate finance. Yet, accessing and effectively using these funds presents substantial challenges, especially in developing countries.
Trade and climate change: managing policies on the road to net zero
Maisa Rojas Corradi
Minister of the Environment, Government of Chile
Luis Garicano
Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
John Van Reenen
Ronald Coase School Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Catherine Wolfram
Professor of Business Administration, University of California - BerkeleyTrade and climate change policies have become increasingly interwoven. Subsidies for green industries often provoke tariffs, such as US actions over Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles. The European Union’s Emission Trading System (ETS) has set an increasingly high price on carbon emissions. But if high emission industries like steel, simply relocate and European consumers then buy the imported steel, this “carbon leakage” undermines the original policy. To tackle this problem, the European Union has introduced the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which seeks to tax such imports to prevent carbon leakage – and to encourage other countries to also introduce carbon taxes. The UK is planning the same. But many countries are unhappy, claiming this is simply disguised protectionism.
Sewage in our waters
Ed Conway
Economics Editor, Sky News
Stephen Machin
Professor, Director of Centre of Economics Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Kamala Dawar
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, School of Law, Queen Marys University of London
James Wallace
Chief Executive Officer, River Action UKWe have a growing waste problem, which has been around for some time and is only getting worse. Dumping of sewage is threatening the health of our rivers. Plastics have penetrated deep into the world’s oceans. Leakages from landfills, farming and industry are contaminating our soil and groundwater. Waste pollution harms public health, biodiversity and the environment. To address it, we need new laws and huge investments. There has been much recent controversy in the UK around Sewage in Our Waters. New laws would have to specify who has the responsibility of undertaking the transition and the investments – water companies, producers, consumers or governments? Preventing transboundary waste flows would require international action to plug loopholes in domestic laws and international conventions.