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Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

Hosted by LSE Environment Week

In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)

Speakers

Dr Allan Hsiao

Professor Jose Scheinkman

Chair

Professor Robin Burgess

As climate change accelerates, the economic case for protecting and investing in natural capital has never been clearer. This event brings together leading economists and policymakers to explore how the degradation of ecosystems – from forests and wetlands to oceans – is not only an environmental crisis but a profound market failure.

Natural capital – the world’s stock of natural assets like soil, air, water, and biodiversity – underpins global economies yet remains largely invisible in traditional financial systems. In the face of rising climate risks, we must rethink how we measure, value, and invest in nature.

Meet our speakers and chair 

Allan Hsiao (@AllanHsiao) is Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He works on questions in environmental and development economics using tools from empirical industrial organisation and international trade.

José Scheinkman is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia University and the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, where he served as department chair immediately prior to his departure for Princeton.

Robin Burgess is a professor of economics, co-Founder and the Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Director of the Economics of Environment and Energy (EEE) Research Programme, all at LSE. He is co-Director (with Michael Greenstone) of the Coase Project on the Economics of Climate, Energy and Environment, and was the past President of BREAD.

More about this event

Join us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (@STICERD_LSE), International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (@POID_LSE) within the Department of Economics at LSE are convening the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September. Working with partners at the School and across the world we want to use Environment Week to encourage economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change.

This is one of three public events during LSE Environment Week, the others are:

22 September - Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda

24 September - Climate finance and investment in low-income countries

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This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.

For the in person event: You can request one ticket via the online ticket request form, which will open after 12noon on Monday 8 September. The ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.

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