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Getting to Zero Requires a Big Push: climate-technology treaties and the energy transition

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment

Auditorium, Centre Building

Speaker

Professor Scott Barrett

Centennial (Visiting) Professor

Chair

Professor Simon Dietz

Professor Simon Dietz

Professor of Environmental Policy

The climate treaties have sought to limit the economy-wide emissions of individual countries with a view to meeting a collective goal, and economists have advocated achieving these emission limits using economic instruments.

Scott Barrett presents the case for a very different approach, one that focuses on sectors rather than whole economies, on the transformation of energy-technology systems rather than emission reductions, and on action at the global rather than the national level.

Meet our speaker and chair

Scott Barrett is Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University and Centennial (Visiting) Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a leading scholar on global challenges, including climate change, ocean governance, and infectious disease eradication.

Simon Dietz is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography and Environment. He is also affiliated with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, of which he is a co-founder and former director.

More about this event

This event is co-hosted with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

The Department of Geography and Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEClimate

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