Events
Upcoming events
To hear speakers delve into sustainability themes from across the social sciences, come to an event hosted by the Global School of Sustainability at LSE.
Toxic Legacies: Holding Multinational Giants Accountable for Historic Pollution
Public event - free and open to all
Monday 27 October 2025, 5:00pm-6:30pm
MAR 2.09, Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE campus
Decades of mining during British colonialism made Kabwe, Zambia, the world’s most polluted town and a UN-designated ‘sacrifice zone’. Now, 140,000 women and children have filed a class action against mining giant AngloAmerican. With a critical appeal hearing just days away on November 3-4, this event examines whether the case can proceed—and what it would mean for corporate accountability worldwide.
Find out moreSustainable Subsea Networks: The Environmental Impact of Internet Infrastructure
Public event - free and open to all
Tuesday 28 October 2025, 6.30pm-8pm
PAN G.01, Pankhurst House, LSE campus
What is the environmental impact of global communications networks? How can they be made more sustainable? In this upcoming talk, Nicole Starosielski explores the sustainability of the global internet’s backbone and introduces new academic-industry collaborations aimed at reducing emissions and improving cable sustainability. Cross-sector cooperation, she argues, is key to minimising digital infrastructure’s environmental impact.
Find out moreSeeing the unseen: combining data to better understand our environment
Public event - free and open to all
Wednesday 29 October 2025, 6.30pm-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE campus and online public event
Join us as the University of Glasgow’s Claire Miller explores the statistical and data analytics approaches being developed to successfully bring different data sources together to improve environmental planning and management.
Find out moreSustainability, peace and development: in conversation with Juan Manuel Santos
Public event - free and open to all
Part of the GSoS Launch Special Event Series
Thursday 30 October 2025, 6.30pm-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE campus and online public event
Join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and LSE alumnus Juan Manuel Santos and LSE academics Professor Mary Kaldor and Professor Lord Nicholas Stern in a conversation to explore how we can build a sustainable, peaceful and stable world. Visit the event listing for full details and registration information.
Find out moreThe 21st century growth story: economics and opportunities of climate action
Public event - free and open to all
Part of the GSoS Launch Special Event Series
Wednesday 5 November 2025, 6.30-8pm
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. Marking the publication of his new book, The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action, Nicholas Stern will challenge the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development.
Find out moreFault lines: the new political economy of a warming world
Public event - free and open to all
Monday 10 November 2025, 6.30-8pm
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
In this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will drive the next phase of climate politics, and what that means for diplomacy, democracy and development.
Find out moreClimate change, inequality, and policy contestation workshop
Academic research event
Monday 10 - Tuesday 11 November 2025
Timings and full programme to be confirmed
Join us for the workshop exploring distributional impacts of climate change, starting with a keynote from Professor Helen Milner, visiting professor to the Department of Social Policy in collaboration with GSoS. Find more about the workshop and call for papers from the workshop event page.
Find out moreSaving Britain's wildlife
Public event - free and open to all
Tuesday 11 November 2025, 6.30-8pm
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
Britain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Many of the large mammals that once inhabited these islands were driven to extinction long ago. In the twenty-first century, insect populations have collapsed by around three quarters. Is there any way back?
Find out moreRemaking the Globe: gender, justice and the politics of sustainability
Public event - free and open to all
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 5.30pm - 7.00pm
In-person, LSE campus
Amid climate crises and social upheavals, sustainability offers both a challenge and an opportunity. Yet, dominant frameworks privilege technological and economic fixes and global climate architectures and sustainability frameworks are often complicit in perpetuating injustices. What if worldmaking begins with remaking - using existing infrastructures to ensure accountability, gender justice, and democratic participation? This is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
Register nowFilm-screening & roundtable discussion: Global Day of Action for Climate Justice: Decarbonization – A just transition?
Public event - free and open to all
Monday 17 November 2025, 5pm - 7.15 pm
MAR 2.05 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE
Screening of The Fisherman and the Banker (2024), introduced by director Sheena Sumaria. The documentary follows a fishing community in India suing the World Bank’s IFC over a coal plant threatening their livelihood. With discussants Alex Bennett (ClientEarth) and Dr Agnieszka Smoleńska (CETEx), chaired by Dr Marie Petersmann (LSE/GSoS). Held as part of the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice on the theme: Decarbonization: A just transition.
Register nowThe Carbon Problem
Public event - free and open to all
This is the third lecture in the Sir Oliver Hart Lecture Series
Thursday 4 December 2025, 6:30-7:35 pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE
The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continues to rise. How large are the economic costs of carbon emissions, and how can humanity reduce them? This lecture will examine the role of sustainable finance in addressing these challenges, with particular attention to its various forms and implications for investors.
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