Date: Thursday 28 May 2015
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Michael Greenstone
Discussant: Lord Nicholas Stern
Chair: Professor Robin Burgess

Economic growth depends critically on access to reliable energy. However, in much of the world, access to energy remains low and supply is often unreliable. At the same time, the world’s energy choices are leading to levels of pollution that are substantially shortening people’s lives and causing climate change. The energy and growth challenge requires identifying solutions to these problems of access to inexpensive and reliable energy, while limiting environmental damages and guarding against disruptive climate change. Professor Greenstone will explore the key energy trends, especially in developing countries, and outline solutions to the energy and growth challenge that determines the well-being of the billions of people around the planet.

Michael Greenstone is a Research Programme Director (Energy) for the International Growth Centre (IGC), the Milton Friedman Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and the Director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago.

Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at LSE.

Robin Burgess is the Director of the IGC, a Professor of Economics at LSE and Director of the Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme at LSE.

The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC directs a global network of world-leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia and works closely with partner governments to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth challenges. Based at LSE and in partnership with the University of Oxford, the IGC is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by LSE 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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