Building sustainable societies and behaviours panel

Join us for a panel discussion with Liam Beiser-McGrath, Catherine McKenna, and Ganga Shreedhar

Climate action at scale will be needed in order build sustainable societies. How can behaviour change contribute to this – moving beyond individual choices to the necessary institutional, social, and political transformations? Drawing on research across policy, psychology, economics, and philosophy, we ask what fundamental behavioural and institutional change looks like in this context, and the implications this can have for such matters as food systems, technology adoption, public trust, future-ready climate policy, and more.

Meet our speakers and chair

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath is an is an Associate Professor of International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where they chair the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub. Liam is also an Associate of LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and an Affiliate of the Data Science Institute. Liam is an Editor for the journal Environmental Politics and organises EPG Online, a seminar series on Environmental Politics and Governance., Liam's research uses experimental methods and machine learning to study the political economy of climate change, with a particular focus on public support for climate and energy policy. This research has been published in leading international journals including Nature Climate Change, and the Journal of Politics and has informed reports by international organisations and policy bodies.

Catherine McKenna is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions. She is Canadas former Minister of Environment & Climate Change and Minister of Infrastructure. She is Chair of the UN Secretary-Generals High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments. Catherine founded Women Leading on Climate. She is a member of Temaseks Global Sustainability Advisory Panel and Singapores International Advisory Panel on Carbon Credits. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE, a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and an advisor to the Lawson Climate Institute. She serves on the advisory boards of several private sector companies and is a frequent global speaker on climate action, and womens empowerment. She is the author of Run Like a Girl.

Dr Ganga Shreedhar is an Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science in LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science and co-director of the MSc in Behavioural Science programme. She is an applied behavioural and experimental economist studying how to change human behaviour in ways benefit people and the planet. Her research examines how people perceive and understand complex dilemmas like mass extinction and climate change, and consumer and citizen motivations and choices. She also studies how behavioural interventions can be transformative and create sustainable habits.

Liam Delaney is Professor and Head of the Department of Department for Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE and co-lead of the Global School of Sustainability Building Sustainable Societies theme. His research examines how behavioural, psychological, and institutional factors shape decision-making and societal responses to sustainability challenges. He is a member of the Irish Climate Change Advisory Council and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, and co-founder of FORGOOD, which applies behavioural science to ethical and sustainability challenges. A former Fulbright and MSCA Fellow, he has published extensively on behaviour, wellbeing, and policy design.

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