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SUMMARY:Economics of climate
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Ol
 d Theatre\, Old Building)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 24 June 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersJuliano AssunçãoR
 obin BurgessAndré Corrêa do LagoRohini PandeJosé ScheinkmanCatherine Wo
 lframChairProfessor Jonathan PershingThis event will showcase the recent w
 ork of the COP30 Action Agenda on transition away from fossil fuels\, fore
 sts\, carbon markets and climate coalitions.Convened by José Scheinkman o
 f Columbia University as part of COP30 under the leadership of COP30 Presi
 dent André Corrêa do Lago\, this work has brought together leading econo
 mic perspectives on climate action. The event will also mark the formal la
 unch of the Economics of Climate (ECO)\, a platform that will carry this w
 ork forward\, convened jointly by researchers from LSE\, Columbia Universi
 ty\, PUC Rio\, University of Chicago\, Yale University and MIT\, with supp
 ort from the LSE Global School of Sustainability and the International Gro
 wth Centre.Meet our speakers and chairJuliano Assunção is the Executive 
 Director of CPI/PUC-Rio and Professor in the Department of Economics at PU
 C-Rio. Since 2011\, he has been working at CPI/PUC-Rio\, contributing to i
 mproving climate policies in Brazil through evidence-based analyses and di
 rect engagement with policymakers and civil society. Juliano also coordina
 tes the Amazon 30 project\, which aims to leverage a sustainable developme
 nt plan for the Brazilian Amazon by 2030. Juliano is also supporting the C
 OP30 Presidency with the drafting of the Roadmap to Halt and Reverse Defor
 estation and Forest Degradation by 2030.Robin Burgess is Professor of Econ
 omics at LSE\, where he is also co-Founder and Director of the Internation
 al Growth Centre (IGC) and Director of the Economics of Environment and En
 ergy (EEE) Research Programme. He is co-Director\, of the Coase Project on
  the Economics of Climate\, Energy and Environment. His research spans env
 ironmental economics\, development economics and political economy\, and h
 e has published on topics including natural disasters\, land reform\, indu
 strial policy\, taxation and poverty. He has held visiting positions at MI
 T\, Harvard University\, the National Bureau of Economic Research and UC B
 erkeley\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Socie
 ty. He is currently leading research across Bangladesh\, Brazil\, China\, 
 India\, Indonesia\, Kenya\, Myanmar\, Pakistan\, South Korea and Uganda. R
 obin has serves on the COP30 President’s Council on Economics\, Finance\
 , and Climate.André Aranha Corrêa do Lago is the President of COP30. As 
 a career diplomat\, he has worked across international organizations\, tra
 de promotion\, protocol and energy\, and served as adviser at the Office o
 f the President between 1991 and 1992\, contributing to the organization o
 f the Earth Summit (Rio-92). He served as Director of the Energy Departmen
 t (2008-2011) and of the Environment Department (2011-2013) at the Brazili
 an Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Brazil's chief negotiator for clima
 te change and for the Rio+20 Conference. He has served as Brazilian Ambass
 ador to Japan (2013-2018) and to India (2018-2023)\, and from March 2023 t
 o January 2025 as Secretary for Climate\, Energy\, and Environment at the 
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is the author of several books and article
 s on sustainable development and climate change.Rohini Pande is the Henry 
 J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Cen
 ter at Yale University\, where she also serves as Faculty Director of Incl
 usion Economics. Her research focuses on how institutions shape power rela
 tionships and patterns of economic\, political and environmental advantage
  in low- and middle-income countries\, with a particular interest in the r
 ole of public policy in providing the poor and disadvantaged with politica
 l and economic power. She has published widely on governance\, political e
 conomy and environmental policy\, and her work has influenced policy acros
 s South Asia and globally. Pande is an elected member of the American Acad
 emy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has r
 eceived the 2018 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Associ
 ation and the 2022 Infosys Prize in Social Sciences. She received her PhD 
 in Economics from the London School of Economics. Rohini serves on the COP
 30 President’s Council on Economics\, Finance\, and Climate.José A. Sch
 einkman is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia U
 niversity and Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics (emeritus) at P
 rinceton University\, and a Research Associate at the NBER. Previously\, h
 e was the Alvin H. Baum Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of th
 e Department of Economics at the University of Chicago\, and Vice Presiden
 t in the Financial Strategies Group of Goldman Sachs. His research spans f
 inancial economics and climate finance\, with a particular focus on specul
 ation in financial markets and the effects of liquidity on financial fragi
 lity. Scheinkman is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences\, a Fello
 w of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a Fellow of the Econometr
 ic Society and a Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
 . He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2007 and t
 he CME-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications in 2014. Jose co
 nvened and chaired the COP30 President's Council on Economics\, Finance\, 
 and Climate.Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in En
 ergy and Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management\
 , where she leads the Global Climate Policy Project\, a joint initiative b
 etween Harvard and MIT dedicated to advancing innovations in global climat
 e policies and institutions. Previously\, she served as the Cora Jane Floo
 d Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at U
 C Berkeley\, and from March 2021 to October 2022 as Deputy Assistant Secre
 tary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury. Her research foc
 uses on the economics of energy markets\, including rural electrification\
 , energy efficiency\, environmental regulation\, and the impact of privati
 sation and market restructuring in the US and UK. She is currently working
  on projects at the intersection of climate\, energy and trade\, including
  carbon border adjustment mechanisms and oil market sanctions. Wolfram was
  previously Program Director of the NBER Environment and Energy Economics 
 Program and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard. Catherine serv
 es on the COP30 President's Council on Economics\, Finance\, and Climate\,
  chairing a working group on climate coalitionsJonathan Pershing is the In
 augural Dean of the LSE Global School of Sustainability and Professor in P
 ractice. He has extensive experience at the highest levels of US climate p
 olicy and has played a key role in creating international climate agreemen
 ts. His public sector experience includes serving as Special Envoy for Cli
 mate Change at the US Department of State during the Obama Administration\
 , Senior Climate Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy\, and Principal Dep
 uty Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at the De
 partment of Energy. Beyond government\, he directed the climate\, energy a
 nd pollution program at the World Resources Institute\, led the environmen
 t division at the International Energy Agency in Paris\, and spent nearly 
 a decade as science advisor and deputy director of the State Department's 
 Office of Global Change. From 2017 to 2021 and 2022 to 2025\, he served as
  Program Director for Environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundat
 ion\, leading a team focused on global climate change and conservation in 
 the North American West.More about this eventThis event\nis hosted by: The
  Economics of Environment and Energy (EEE) Programme which gathers a dy
 namic group of\nresearchers working on the interaction between human activ
 ity and the natural\nenvironment. EEE's objective is to bring these concer
 ns into mainstream\neconomics and to create the policy-relevant research n
 eeded to address\nenvironmental and energy challenges at scale and speed\;
  The Global School of Sustainability (GSoS)\, brings\ntogether the wealt
 h of social science expertise at LSE concerned with the\ncritical question
 s for a sustainable future\; and The International Growth Centre (IGC) is
  a global research centre with a network of world-leading\nresearchers\, c
 ountry teams across Africa\, South Asia\, and the Middle East\, and\na set
  of global policy initiatives that works with policymakers in developing\n
 countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through cutting-edge
  and\nresponsive research.This event is part of the London Climate Action 
 Week 2026.Hashtag for this event: #ClimateActionWeekFrom time to time ther
 e are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan t
 o attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of the event
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