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LSE Environment Week provides the ‘how’ of climate action
With only seven weeks to COP30, LSE Environment Week shows how better economic data and policies can drive environmental solutions.
The challenge is huge: finding ways to make economic growth cleaner and protect communities from environmental change. For economists, the answers lie in “finding the right incentives, the right policies, the right markets, to drive the actions we need to meet climate targets”, says the International Growth Centre’s Executive Director, Jonathan Leape.
This international event brings together policymakers and researchers around questions of natural capital, climate finance, and the COP30 agenda. And, working with partners from across the world, it presents original evidence on delivering inclusive and sustainable growth at a practical scale.
Over four days, the International Growth Centre and partners across the London School of Economics and Political Science will welcome international experts from multiple disciplines across economics and the social sciences, such as Jose Scheinkman, Michael Greenstone, Vera Songwe, Rohini Pande and Robin Burgess.
Environment Week also brings policymakers into the discussions, notably in its roundtable policy sessions and a series of evening events that are open to all. This reflects the IGC’s commitment to connecting research to policy action: in the past 5 years, more than 600 projects have significantly impacted policy discussions or decisions.
Environment Week is where experts talk freely. They share information – openly, with the public, for free. They test their ideas, and provide analysis that states, cities, and companies can use. Away from the politicised debates of COP, Environment Week’s delegates are building the economic and environmental evidence for policy change.
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What is the IGC?
The International Growth Centre works with policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research. We generate new evidence and innovative new ideas to improve the productivity of people and firms, as the key driver of sustainable economic development, and to support our government partners in transitioning to low-carbon growth pathways and protecting vulnerable populations.
The IGC is a global research centre with a network of world-leading researchers and a set of resident country teams and initiatives working across Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Based at LSE and in partnership with the University of Oxford, the IGC is majority funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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