EPG Seminar Series
Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online seminar series at the Department of Social Policy, LSE.
We will be holding in-person viewings at LSE, with some presentations also happening in-person. Subscribe to the EPG Online mailing list in order to receive further details.
For any questions related to the seminar series, please email the academic organiser Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath.
2026/27 Seminar Series Schedule
Thursday 29 October, 4.30pm-5.30pm, OLD 2.21
Balancing Oceans and Politics: Examining MPA Coverage Variation Among European States
Kayla Morton (Delaware)
Focus on Disaster: Why Attention to Hazards Appears in Party Manifestos
Tianhui Wu, Elise Pizzi & Tracy Osborn (Iowa)
Thursday 26 November, 4.30pm-5.30pm, OLD 2.21
How Disasters Drive Action: Subsidiaries, Supply Chains, and Climate Lobbying
Laura Comini (Michigan) & Hao Zhang (NYU)
Silencing Dissent to Protect Carbon: The Effects of US Anti-Protest Laws on Climate Politics
Lorenzo Crippa (Strathclyde) & Dafni Kalatzi-Pantera (Glasgow)
Thursday 10 December, 4.30pm-5.30pm, OLD 2.21
Natural Disasters at Origin and Immigrants’ Political Preferences at Destination
Enrico Cavallotti (EUI)
Collective Responsibility and Mass Preferences over Climate Action
Paul Michel (Cologne)
Archive
Thursday 15 October, 4.30pm-5.30pm, OLD 2.21
Chinese Energy Infrastructure and Political Alignment in Climate Governance
Callista Chim (UCSD)
Bias Against Mobile Capital: Evidence from U.S. Environmental Enforcement
Jerry Min (Harvard)
2 April 2026
The Intensive Margin of Green Development: Government Procurement and the Greening of Vietnamese Firms
Edmund J. Malesky (Duke University)
The Fibre Frontier: Internet Expansion and Climate Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa
Amanda Kennard (Stanford University)
19th March 2026
Not in My Basement! The Political Economy of Public Backlash to Climate Policy
Niklas Kramer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Attitudinal Backlash against the Green Transition: Evidence from the UK Coal Phase-Out
Annika Schuster (University of Salzburg)
5th March 2026
Potemkin Disclosure: Firms Strategically Use Transparency to Avoid Climate Regulation
Jonas Fischer (University of Oxford)
From Competition to Complementarity: How 41 Climate Clubs Align with the Paris Agreement
Florentine Koppenborg (Technical University of Munich)
4 December 2025
Performing Decarbonization
Anthony Calacino (University of Oxford)
When do Congressmembers Break the Party Line on Climate Policy? The Significant Impact of Employment in High-Emitting IndustriePeter Wyckoff (LSE)
20 November 2025
Technocratic or Political? The Effect of Partisanship on Drought Responses in France
Rens Chazottes with Nina Lopez-Uroz (EPFL)
Climate Change and Electoral Behaviour: Evidence from Extreme Weather Events in Costa Rica
Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero (University of Namur & World Inequality Lab)
30 October 2025
The Political Economy of Climate Finance: Information, Incentives, and Institutional Delay
Fiona Bare (Princeton University)
Fairness or Familiarity? How Redistribution and Existing Policies Shape Public Acceptance of Carbon Taxation
Oliver Prinzing (University of Lucerne)
16 October 2025
Energy Transitions and Political Transformation: Evidence from the Shale Oil Revolution
Christian Baehr (Princeton University)
Climate Change and the Economic Geography of Political Conflict
Lisa Dellmuth (Stockholm University)
3 April 2025
Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act
Aidan Miao (University College London)
Politics of the energy transition: a case study of electric vehicles policy from South Asia
Anum Mustafa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
20 March 2025
How Politics Percolates Through Science
Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)
Social Discontent and Populist Backlashes in Europe's Green Transition
Mahir Yazar (University of Bergen)
13 March 2025
Political signaling drives China's carbon market, not market signals
Chen Xiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Natural Disasters and the Electability of Women: Evidence from Philippine Mayoral Elections
Holly Jansen (University of California San Diego)
6 March 2025
Greening in Groups: Firm Concentration and Lobbying on Green Industrial Policy
Ryan Pike (Yale University)
Supply Chains and Political Strategies: Analyzing Firm Responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Lingbo Zhao (Penn State University)
20 February 2025
Do climate events drive support for climate change policies?
Cèlia Estruch-Garcia (University of Barcelona)
Safety Net or Self Reliance? U.S. Public Opinion on Federal Aid After Natural Disasters
Angie Jo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Rachael Kha (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
5th December 2024
Climate Change, Political Conflict, and Democratic Resilience
Austin Beacham (Georgia Institue of Technology), Christina J. Schneider (UCSD), and Emilie M. Hafner-Burton (UCSD)
Chasing the Sun: The Political Economy of Solar Industry Investment in the Global South
Ishana Ratan (UC Berkeley)
21st November 2024
Towards an environmental welfare state? Protecting populations against environmental risks and disasters in the age of the climate crisis.
Lydie Cabane (Leiden University) and Anne Laure Beaussier (Sciences Po)
The Role of Social Protection for a Just Transition in Developing and Emerging Economies
Katrin Gasior (Southern African Social Policy Research Insights)
7th November 2024
More than Symbols : The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support
Théodore Tallent (Sciences Po), Malo Jan (Sciences Po), and Luis Sattelmayer (Sciences Po)
Cost, Risk, and Threat: The Material & Contextual Factors Driving Climate Policy Preferences
Max Bradley (EUI)
24th October 2024
Does Warm Weather Cool Voters Down? How Temperature Fluctuations Impact Voting and Climate Concerns
Maria Cotofan (King's College London) Karly Kuralbayeva (King's College London), and Konstantinos Matakos (King's College London and Harvard)
Measuring Climate Change Salience in Political Manifestos: A Computational Text Analysis Approach
Mary Sanford (RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment)