Contextual Lecture: Global Climate: Ambition and Reality
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International cooperation is essential to tackling global climate change, but such efforts have been slow and are increasingly fragile. Will a fundamentally different approach to negotiation lead to an outcome that is more ambitious, less costly, and – crucially – more likely to last?
About the speaker: Professor Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith teaches environmental economics at UCL and at Sciences Po in Paris. He began his career as a member of the UK Government Economic Service, and then worked for ten years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent research institute working on issues of taxation and public policy. He joined UCL full-time in 1997 as Professor of Economics, and has recently completed a term of office as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. He has written widely on economic policy issues, especially environmental policy and tax policy. He is the author of two books in OUP’s series of Very Short Introductions: Environmental Economics (2011) and Taxation (2015).
This lecture is part of the Contextual Lecture Series: Tomorrow's World - Intimations of the Future