STICERD Public Events and Lectures
LSE Environment Week
Trade and climate change: Managing policies on the road to net zero
Various speakers
Wednesday 25 September 2024 18:30 - 20:00
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About this event
Trade and climate change policies have become increasingly interwoven. Subsidies for green industries often provoke tariffs, such as US actions over Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles. The European Union’s Emission Trading System (ETS) has set an increasingly high price on carbon emissions. But if high emission industries like steel, simply relocate and European consumers then buy the imported steel, this “carbon leakage” undermines the original policy.
To tackle this problem, the European Union has introduced the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which seeks to tax such imports to prevent carbon leakage – and to encourage other countries to also introduce carbon taxes. The UK is planning the same. But many countries are unhappy, claiming this is simply disguised protectionism.
Meet our speakers and chair:
Maisa Rojas Corradi is Minister for the Environment, Chile
Luis Garicano is School Professor, School of Public Policy, LSE
Catherine Wolfram is William F. Pounds Professor of Energy Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
John Van Reenen (Chair) is Ronald Coase School Professor, LSE
This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.
For the in-person event: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Find more information on the LSE Events page with instructions on how to register for this event online.
This is one of the three LSE public lectures that will take place as part of the Environment Week. You can find more in the links below:
Tuesday 24 September Innovative market solutions to confront climate change
Thursday 26 September Sewage in our waters
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For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.