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Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty, QMUL and the International Inequalities Institute, LSE

Workshop on Climate Change and Inequality

 

London, 10th May 2024

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Venue: LSE FAWCETT HOUSE, ROOM 9.04

8.45 – 9.15 Coffee and introduction: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (RCSIP, QMUL) and Stephen Jenkins (III, LSE)

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9.15 – 10.45 Session I: Income and wealth (Chair: Stephen Jenkins)

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1. Shouldering the weight of climate change: Intra-household resource allocation after rainfall. Ulugbek Aminjonov (Bordeaux School of Economics)

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2. Effects of extreme weather on the wealth inequality across households. Kati Kraehnert (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Ruhr University Bochum)

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3. Climate impacts and wealth inequality: Global evidence from a novel subnational dataset. Martina Pardy (London Schools of Economics)

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10.45-11.15 Break

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11.15-12.45 Session II: Climate shocks and gender (Chair: Caterina Gennaioli)

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4. The Incidence of flood risk and implications for insurance. Thomas Bézy (Paris School of Economics)

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5. Women as ecological caretakers: Transformation of gender roles through Haritha Karma Sena (HKS) in Kerala. Slipa Rajeevan (University of Hyderabad)

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6. On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia. Alejandro Puerta (Universidad Carlos III)

 

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

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14.00 – 15.30 Session III: Taxation (Chair: Liam Beiser-McGrath)

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7. Regulating the environmental footprint of data consumption: efficiency and distributional effects of taxation and quotas. Mathilde Aubouin (University of Grenoble Alpes)

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8. Geography versus income: the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxation. Yann Perdereau (Paris School of Economics)

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9. The many faces of carbon tax regressivity: How multiple inequalities drive carbon tax regressivity. Jules Linden (LISER)

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15.30-16.00 Coffee break

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16.00 – 17.00 Keynote lecture by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern: The relationship between climate action and poverty reduction

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Scientific Committee

 

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Queen Mary University of London

Liam Beiser-McGrath, LSE

Stephen Jenkins, LSE

Amaia Palencia Esteban, LSE 

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We are grateful for the generous support from the Centre for Globalisation Research QMUL, the International Inequalities Institute LSE, Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change, LSE

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Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (QMUL) and International Inequalities Institute (LSE) Workshop on 'Climate Change and Inequality', 10th May 2024.
 

The Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (QMUL) and the International Inequalities Institute (LSE) will host a workshop on 'Climate Change and Inequality' on the 10th of May 2024 at the London School of Economics.

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The keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, I G Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the Department of Economics and Chair of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics.

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Contact: 

 

rcsip@qmul.ac.uk, Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty, Queen Mary University of London.

 

a.palencia-esteban@lse.ac.uk, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics.

 

 

 

 

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