Economics of climate

This event will showcase the recent work of the COP30 Action Agenda on moving away from fossil fuels, afforestation, deforestation, and carbon markets; work convened by José Scheinkman at Columbia University as part of COP30 under the leadership of President André Corrêa do Lago, and marks the formal launch of the Economics of Climate Organisation (ECO), which will carry this work forward beyond COP30.

Meet our speakers and chair

• Juliano Assunção is the Executive Director of CPI/PUC-Rio and Professor in the Department of Economics at PUC-Rio. Since 2011, he has been working at CPI/PUC-Rio, contributing to improving climate policies in Brazil through evidence-based analyses and direct engagement with policymakers and civil society. J
• André Corrêa do Lago is President of COP30. He has a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). As a career diplomat, he has held functions in different areas at headquarters, in Brasília: international organizations, trade promotion, protocol and energy.
• Corrêa do Lago has been working with the sustainable development agenda since 2001. He was the director of the Energy Department (2008-2011) and of the Environment Department (2011-2013) at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Brazil´s chief negotiator for climate change and for the Rio+20 Conference.
• Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he serves as the founding director of the University’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and the director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
• Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She is also the faculty director of Inclusion Economics at Yale.
• José Scheinkman is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia, Theodore Wells ’29 Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Princeton, and Research Associate at NBER. Previously.
• Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From March 2021 to October 2022, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury. Wolfram has served on the COP30 President’s Council on Economics, Finance, and Climate and chaired a working group on climate coalitions.

Chair: Jonathan Pershing is Dean of the Global School of Sustainability and Professor in Practice. Jonathan has extensive experience at the highest level of US climate policy and has played a key role in creating international climate agreements.

More about this event

This event is hosted by; The Economics of Environment and Energy (EEE) Programme which gathers a dynamic group of researchers working on the interaction between human activity and the natural environment. The Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) which brings together the wealth of social science expertise at LSE concerned with the critical questions for a sustainable future and The International Growth Centre (IGC) works with policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research.

The Global School of Sustainability at LSE (GSoS) is the interdisciplinary centre for sustainability research impact at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). GSoS works in partnerships to advance pioneering sustainability research, global policy engagement and world-leading educational opportunities. Grounded in LSE’s interdisciplinary excellence across the social sciences, GSoS’s global networks target the systemic challenges to sustainability embedded in the world’s economies, politics and societies.

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