Green Growth and the New Industrial Revolution
Keynote Speakers
- Professor Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford and Grantham Research Institute
- Simon Upton, Environment Director, OECD
Chairs
- Professor Dame Judith Rees, Grantham Research Institute
- Professor Sam Fankhauser, Grantham Research Institute
Conference Details
This conference will present the key results from a two year research programme conducted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE and supported by the Global Green Growth Institute. Its aim was to understand better the links between environmental protection, growth and development, and to strengthen the analytical and empirical underpinnings of the ‘green growth’ concept in relation to both developing and developed countries.
The full day event will feature GRI researchers and invited experts and include sessions on the following:
- The ‘green growth’ narrative and the GRI research programme
- Macroeconomics: jobs, poverty and green growth
- Assessing the impacts of innovation and other climate-change policies
- Evidence from economic history about the sources of growth and the role of policy
- Growth and adaptation to climate change
- The future of the green growth paradigm
Programme
Welcome and introduction
Sam Fankhauser
Myung-Kyoon Lee (Global Green Growth Institute)
Session I: The ‘green growth’ narrative and the GRI research programme
Keynote: Cameron Hepburn (Oxford University)
Session II: Macroeconomics: jobs, poverty and green growth
Presentation: Baran Doda
Presentation: Karlygash Kuralbayeva
Discussant: Sheng Fulai (UNEP)
Session III: Assessing the impacts of innovation and other climate-change policies
Presentation: Antoine Dechezleprêtre
Presentation: Stefania Lovo
Discussant: Michael Toman (World Bank)
Session IV: Evidence from economic history about the sources of growth and the role of policy
Presentation: Roger Fouquet and Ralph Hippe
Discussant: Tim Foxon (University of Leeds)
Session V: Growth and adaptation to climate change
Presentation: Sam Fankhauser
Presentation: Mintewab Bezabih
Discussant: Declan Conway
Closing session: The future of the green growth paradigm
Keynote: Simon Upton (OECD)
Concluding remarks
Alex Bowen
Myung-Kyoon Lee (Global Green Growth Institute)
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