Call for Papers

Call for Papers: LSE Environment Week 2024

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department are convening the third Environment Week at the LSE on 23-26 September 2024. Working with partners at the School and across the world we want to use Environment Week to encourage economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change.

The urgency of addressing climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation continues to rise, highlighting the need for research in this area. Achieving a more sustainable balance between human activity and the natural environment, while maintaining economic growth, remains a significant challenge. Addressing it will require substantial innovation in multiple directions, including finding ways to make economic growth cleaner, control environmental externalities, and protect human populations from environmental change.

To identify and explore these innovations, we invite submissions from all fields of economics - including development, macroeconomics, industrial organisation, public, finance, labour, trade, urban, theory, behavioural, and political economy - as well as environmental, energy, and climate.

The deadline is 28 June 23:59 GMT, successful authors will be notified by July 31st. Only submissions of full papers will be considered. There is no fee to participate in the conference. Travel and accommodation funding is available for presenters. Limited spots will be available for non-presenters to attend - registration will be open closer to the time.