Environment
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The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
ConferenceJul 1–2, 2024
The intricacies of the political economy that play out across countries in the Global South have profound significance for understanding the nature of ecological change and economic security that confront our world today.
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LEPC VI: Ideas for Building the Future
ConferenceFeb 16–18, 2024
India: Climate Change, Technology, and Growth
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India’s Leadership and Global Challenges of Climate and Finance
Oct 26, 2023
If we’re going to address environmental catastrophe, we need to support each other on a global scale. Rob Johnson checks in with Adair Turner about his work, and practical solutions to address the climate crisis.
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A Plan to Fix a Fractured World
Oct 12, 2023
Mike Spence talks with Rob Johnson about his upcoming co-authored book “Permacrisis”, India and the G20, and bringing the world together to address our shared challenges.
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Climate Finance: Where Does the Money Come From and Who Gets It?
Aug 7, 2023
Reaching climate goals means rich countries must invest in sustainable technologies in developing countries with huge energy needs.
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Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
Jul 13, 2023
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems
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Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship
Jul 6, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind reveal how centuries of belief in infinite growth on a finite planet have put us all in danger
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Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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Working Paper
Where Does the Money Go? An Analysis of Revenues in the GB Power Sector During the Energy Crisis
May 2023
Revenues to GB electricity generators in 2022 increased by almost £30bn, compared to pre-COVID levels.
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Working Paper
What Next for the Post Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Jan 2023
The principal threat to economic stability currently is the overhang of debt, both private and public.
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Food Security in Africa: “This Crisis Has Shown the Limits to Africa’s Resilience”
Dec 1, 2022
“We risk a global decoupling in which East and West face off in a cold war, and Africans are caught in the middle,” says Professor Carlos Lopes in an interview with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin
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India: The Path to Sustained Growth for the Next Decade
ConferenceNov 28–30, 2022
The 5th edition of the Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC) is jointly organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, INET and FLAME University.
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Green Power Pools and Electricity Pricing: Practical Ways Out of the UK Energy Crisis
Nov 15, 2022
The current energy market structures, including the short-run-marginal-price-on-all nature of the current wholesale market, are not fit for a transition to a renewables-dominated system.
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Working Paper
Separating electricity from gas prices through Green Power Pools: Design options and evolution
Nov 2022
Moving away from fossil fuels, towards a system with a far greater contribution from variable renewables, means that the current system is not fit for purpose.
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Economist Offers Stark Climate Reality Check. Plus a Bit of Science-Based Hope.
Sep 27, 2022
In a new book, Alligators in the Arctic and How To Avoid Them, Peter Dorman shows how flawed academic models, faulty assumptions and unrealistic schemes grossly underestimate what’s needed to stop catastrophic warming. He argues for a straightforward carbon emission budget – plus the active citizenship required to fight big businesses that want to keep doing business as usual. Lynn Parramore explores his findings and talks to the economist about the path forward.