Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures 2012

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution

Speaker: Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics Dates: Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 February 2012 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE (MAP)

LECTURE 1 - Tuesday 21 February 2012
What we risk and how we should cast the economics and ethics
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LECTURE 2 - Wednesday 22 February 2012
How we can respond and prosper
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LECTURE 3 - Thursday 23 February 2012
How we can get there: building national and international action
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Overview: Five years on from the Stern Review there have been important changes in the world which are likely to have a profound impact on our response to the two defining challenges of the century, overcoming poverty and managing climate change.  Lord Stern will discuss how we can bring economics and political economy to the analysis of our response to these challenges in the context of a special but difficult decade in the global economy.  The analysis of climate change has seen risk and the new-energy-industrial revolution move up the agenda in recent years, and we have learned more about prospects and mechanisms of collaboration.  We require a deepening of the understanding of public policy for promoting the dynamics of transformation and managing immense risks.  This should include a strong focus on key market failures.  Lord Stern will outline the attractiveness of the new energy-industrial revolution and of low-carbon growth and will discuss how we can build the necessary national and international action to respond to the two defining challenges.

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