08:30
London School of Economics
September 23
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
Tuesday 23 Sep 2025 6.30pm - 8pmAs climate change accelerates, the economic case for protecting and investing in natural capital has never been clearer. This event brings together leading economists and policymakers to explore how the degradation of ecosystems – from forests and wetlands to oceans – is not only an environmental crisis but a profound market failure.Natural capital – the world’s stock of natural assets like soil, air, water, and biodiversity – underpins global economies yet remains largely invisible in traditional financial systems. In the face of rising climate risks, we must rethink how we measure, value, and invest in nature.Meet our speakers and chairProfessor Juliano Assunção is a Professor of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Executive Director of the Climate Policy Initiative. His research areas of expertise encompass development and environmental economics.Jim Leape serves as co-director of the Center for Ocean Solutions and is the William and Eva Price Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Jim has four decades of conservation experience, spanning a broad range of conservation issues on every continent. From 2005 to 2014, he served as Director General of WWF International and leader of the global WWF Network.Robin Burgess is a professor of economics, co-Founder and the Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Director of the Economics of Environment and Energy (EEE) Research Programme, all at LSE. He is co-Director (with Michael Greenstone) of the Coase Project on the Economics of Climate, Energy and Environment, and was the past President of BREAD.More about this eventThe Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (@STICERD_LSE), International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (@POID_LSE) within the Department of Economics at LSE are convening the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September. Working with partners at the School and across the world we want to use Environment Week to encourage economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change.This is one of three public events during LSE Environment Week, the others are:22 September - Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda24 September - Climate finance and investment in low-income countriesJoin us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.Hashtag for this event: #LSEEventsLSE holds a wide range of events, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or views of the London School of Economics and Political Science.