Sam Fankhauser (Oxford) at ESM Research Seminar

'The Economic Policy Implications of Net Zero Emissions'

Abstract: Over two thirds of global GDP is now subject to a net zero emissions pledge, that is a commitment to radically cut greenhouse gas emissions and balance remaining emissions with the removal of carbon from the atmosphere. This talk will outline how a technologically and economically feasible net zero pathway might look, and what it means for public policy, investment and growth.

Sam Fankhauser is Professor of Climate Change Economics and Policy at the University of Oxford, where he is affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment. He is also Research Director of Oxford Net Zero and a Fellow of Reuben College.

Outside academia, Sam is an Associate Director at economics consultancy Vivid Economics. He was an inaugural member of the UK Climate Change Committee and a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution.

Before moving to Oxford, Sam was Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, where he remains a Visiting Professor. He has also worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility. Sam has studied economics at the University of Berne (Switzerland), the London School of Economics and University College London.

This is an ESM research internal seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here