Public Lectures
Tuesday 21st to Thursday 23rd February 2012, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern| gave three lectures over three successive days on Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution. These lectures were part of the Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures 2012.
Five years on from the Stern Review, there have been important changes in the world, which are likely to have a profound impact on our response to the two defining challenges of the century, overcoming poverty and managing climate change.
Lord Stern discussed how we can bring economics and political economy to the analysis of our response to these challenges in the context of a special but difficult decade in the global economy.
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Asia Research Centre and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
21st February: What we risk and how we should cast the economics and ethics
Chair: Professor Judith Rees (Director, LSE)
22nd February: How we can respond and prosper: The new energy-industrial revolution
Chair: Professor Lord Richard Layard (Emeritus Professor of Economics, LSE)
23rd February: How do we get there? Building national and international action
Chair: Professor John Van Reenen (Director, Centre of Economic Performance, LSE)