How to Fight Climate Change: economic and technical challenges

Speaker

Professor Hans-Werner Sinn

Chair

Dr Robert Falkner

While mankind has to fight climate change, the economic and technical constraints are severe. Hans-Werner Sinn will give an overview of some of the challenges and potential solutions.

Hans-Werner Sinn (@HansWernerSinn) is President emeritus at the Ifo Institute and Professor at the University of Munich.

Robert Falkner (@robert_falkner) is Research Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.

The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment(@GRI_LSE ) was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy.

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