Thursday, Feb 06, 2025 – Friday, Feb 07, 2025

Political Economics of Environmental Sustainability Conference

This conference will showcase the research at the intersection of politics and the environment because progress on environmental sustainability requires understanding politics.

Open to

Faculty

Staff

Location

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Passing laws that lower emissions, creating incentives for technological innovation, and striking alliances and treaties across countries all require political agreements. Through empirical and theoretical research, we seek to understand political institutions and political actors, and how issues of sustainability evolve within political systems.

Agenda

Key Conference Takeaways

Listen as professor William P. Barnett and Stanford student Samuel Minev Benzecry host a discussion with Bård Harstad, The David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy at the GSB and a professor at the Doerr School of Sustainability, to discuss the takeaways from this academic conference held at Stanford GSB on February 6-7, 2025.

Conference Organizers

Partha Dasgupta

Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Bård Harstad

The David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy, Professor, Doerr School of Sustainability, Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences