STICERD Public Events and Lectures
LSE Environment Week
Sewage in our waters
Various speakers
Thursday 26 September 2024 18:30 - 20:00
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About this event
We have a growing waste problem, which has been around for some time and is only getting worse. Dumping of sewage is threatening the health of our rivers. Plastics have penetrated deep into the world’s oceans. Leakages from landfills, farming and industry are contaminating our soil and groundwater. Waste pollution harms public health, biodiversity and the environment. To address it, we need new laws and huge investments.
There has been much recent controversy in the UK around Sewage in Our Waters. New laws would have to specify who has the responsibility of undertaking the transition and the investments – water companies, producers, consumers or governments? Preventing transboundary waste flows would require international action to plug loopholes in domestic laws and international conventions.
Meet our speakers and chair:
Ed Conway is Economics and Data Editor, Sky News
Kamala Dawar is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London
David Henderson is Chief Executive Officer, Walter UK
James Wallace is Chief Executive Officer, River Action
Stephen Machin (Chair) is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at 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
Wednesday 25 September Trade and climate change: Managing policies on the road to net zero
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For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.