Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation workshop

The Department of Social Policy in partnership with the and Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at the London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting a workshop on "Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation" from Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th November 2025.

As a warming planet redraws political and economic landscapes, new distributional impacts — both within and between societies — are becoming crucial for understanding prospects for meaningful climate action. This workshop invites papers that speak to how the distributional impacts of climate change and a changing environment shape society. We seek theoretically informed and empirically grounded research that does so, welcoming contributions from economics, political science, public and social policy, sociology, and cognate fields.

The workshop will open on Monday 10th November with a public keynote lecture from Helen Milner (Princeton) on her new book with Alexander F. Gazmararian (Michigan) entitled "Fault Lines: The New Political Economy of a Warming World". This will be followed by a full day of paper presentations on Tuesday 11th November with a closing dinner.