Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  So, good evening, everyone.

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  For those who don't know me, my name is Larry Kramer.

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  I'm the President and Vice Chancellor here.

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  And just going to take a moment,

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  and I promise it will only be a moment, just to open this evening's event.

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  And as you know, this is part of our climate week,

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  which sadly overlaps with the climate week at whatever that institution is in New York.

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  but is a really important part of what we do here.

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  So if you think about it,

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  I'll just say a couple things about the climate problem, which I think probably everybody knows.

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  One is, in some ways, it's the Uber problem for everything else.

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  Everything else that we're trying to deal with in the world is,

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  in some sense, has the overhang of climate.

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  creating pressures on it, making it worse, making it more challenging.

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  If you're trying to figure out the solution to whatever, pick it.

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  The political economy problem,

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  the pressures on economies that are created by the cost that climate changes is imposing on people and on economies are enormous

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  if you're thinking about international peace,

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