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Provisional Programme
Green Growth and the New Industrial Revolution
Thursday 26 March 2015
Venue: Royal Society of Arts,
8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ, United Kingdom
This conference will present the key results from a two year research programme conducted by the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE and supported by the Global Green Growth
Institute. Its aim was to understand better the links between environmental protection, growth and development, and
to strengthen the analytical and empirical underpinnings of the ‘green growth’ concept in relation to both developing
and developed countries.
Chairs: Prof. Dame Judith Rees and Prof. Sam Fankhauser, Grantham Research Institute, LSE
8.30
Registration and coffee
9.00
Welcome and introduction – Prof. Sam Fankhauser, Co-director, GRI, and M.K. Lee, Director,
Knowledge Solutions Division, GGGI
9.05-9.45
Session I: The ‘green growth’ narrative and the GRI research programme
Keynote: Prof. Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University
9:45-11.15
Session II: Macroeconomics: jobs, poverty and green growth
Presentations by Baran Doda, GRI, and Karly Kuralbayeva, GRI
Discussant: Sheng Fulai, Head of the Research and Partnerships Unit, UNEP
11.15-11.45
Coffee/tea break
11.45-13.15
Session III: Assessing the impacts of innovation and other climate-change policies
Presentations by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, GRI, and Stefania Lovo, GRI
Discussant: Michael Toman, Research Manager, Energy and Environment Team, World Bank
13.15-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.15
Session IV: Evidence from economic history about the sources of growth and the role of policy
Presentation by Roger Fouquet, GRI
15.15-15.45
Coffee/tea break
15.45-17.00
Session V: Growth and adaptation to climate change
Presentation by Prof. Sam Fankhauser, GRI and Mintewab Bezabih, GRI
Discussant: Prof. Declan Conway, Professorial Research Fellow, GRI
17.00-17.40
Closing session: The future of the green growth paradigm
Keynote: Simon Upton, Environment Director, OECD
17.40-17.45
Concluding remarks: Alex Bowen, GRI, and M.K. Lee, GGGI
17.45
Drinks reception: Following close of conference