2026-05-14
1 小时 21 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.
Good evening, everyone.
Thank you for joining me on this rather unseasonably cold Thursday evening.
And so today the topic that I do want to talk about sounds very simple,
what counts as climate solutions.
However, the answer to this question is quite complex, as you'll see soon.
Why this question matters is because it may determine
where trillions of dollars of investments will flow over the next two decades.
If we get it wrong, we could be at risk of funding activities
that don't deliver the emission reductions that we need to reach net zero.
So let's start with the very basic principle.
As a society, if we want to reach net zero,
and we want to implement the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement
and manage the climate crisis, firms have some broad levers at their disposal.
For the purposes of this lecture, the slides only talk about three of them.
First, they can phase out of carbon-intensive assets and products, such as by closing coal power plants.
They can phase into green assets and products, such as renewable energy.
And for some sectors,
the residual emissions they can't yet eliminate could potentially be offset through reforestation, for example.