2025-09-22
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My name is Robin Burgess and I'm one of the organisers of LSE Environment Week,
so we're on our first day today.
We're in the fourth iteration of LSE Environment Week.
It goes across the whole week.
There's 27 academic presentations, four sets of keynotes, and then three big events.
And this year,
we're very proud to be coming under the auspices of the new Global School of Sustainability at the LSE.
And just two things I wanted to mention.
The first is that the bulk of the organization for LSE Environment Week throughout its four iterations is done by PhD students.
So it's kind of trying to reflect the enthusiasm that the young students at the LSE have for this topic.
And they have been the key reason that it's grown so incredibly quickly.
And then the second thing, which is a little bit different this year,
is we have a very close relationship with the COP 30 process,
which we'll be hearing about this evening.
And I think that also reflects the fact that now people realize that climate change and environmental degradation is sort of the number one challenge out there.
And we need to have economists and other disciplines bridge into that challenge.
And it's great to have that happening at the London School of Economics.