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PLANETARY ECONOMICS
Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development
By Michael Grubb with Jean-Charles Hourcade and Karsten Neuhoff
Launch meeting on 10th March 2014, 6-7.30pm
Venue: Beves Room, Kings College, Cambridge
followed by drinks and nibbles
Chair: Lord Martin Rees, former President, Royal Society and Master, Trinity College Cambridge
Presentation: Michael Grubb
Respondents:
Sir David King (UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change and former UK government Chief Scientist)
Professor David Newbery CBE, (former Director of Department of Applied Economics & 2013 President, International Association of Energy Economics)
‘A profoundly important book - a genuinely original view of how we might overcome some of the most fundamental problems facing effective climate change policy around the world today'.
- Lord Anthony Giddens, Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge and former Director of the London School of Economics.
‘Sets out a clear and comprehensive theory of how transition can be achieved and a convincing and well evidenced argument that it will be, if only we apply the policy tools and approaches available.
- Lord Adair Turner, former Director-General of CBI and Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe; Chair of UK Financial Services Authority and UK Climate Change Committee, 2008-12
'This book combines extraordinary breadth with depth, all written with exceptional clarity… it is a landmark study which should expand the horizons of economics itself ...'
- Catherine Mitchell, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Exeter, UK
‘A seminal book that challenges conventional wisdom about growth, innovation and climate policy’
- Laurence Tubiana, Former Senior Advisor to the French Prime Minister and Director of Global Public Goods at Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.
‘smart, provocative, and unconventional at every turn
- ’David Victor, Professor of International Relations, University of California
To register attendance, please inform Louise Segar, les40@cam.ac.uk
