2026-06-19
1 小时 0 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
So welcome to LSE for today's event, which forms part of the LSE Festival How to Save the Planet,
which has been taking place since Monday and will continue until tomorrow,
with a series of events that explore what can be done to save the Earth,
its people and environment from existential threats, including the climate crisis, conflict, and AI.
My name is Marion Dumas and I'm an Associate Professor Research Fellow
at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment here at the LSE.
And I'm very pleased to welcome Giles Atkinson, Luga Chancel, Dennis Fernando
and Zephanie Repolo to our online audience and I hear people in the room today.
So Giles Atkinson is acting director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change in the Environment
and professor of environmental policy, analysis department of geography and environment.
And his expertise is sustainability economics and the economic appraisal of environmental policy.
Lucas Chancel is associate professor of economics at Sciences Po,
and he's affiliated with the Center for Research on Social Inequalities in the Department of Economics.
He's also co-director and senior economist at the World Inequality Lab, produces a lot of publicly available resources
that you may have already encountered, which is hosted at the Paris School of Economics.
And his work focuses on global inequality and ecological transitions and the tight interplay between these.
Dennis Fernando is a senior rights and justice campaigner at Friends of the Earth,
and he's working on the right to protest anti-racism, international solidarity and adaptation to extreme weather.