Energy

China is now the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter, accounting for over 25% of the global total. But the country has also demonstrated a growing understanding that a truly green economy promises to improve quality of life and create enormous opportunities for technological and political leadership.

The World Economic Roundtable seeks to help the business, investment, and policy communities understand ongoing changes in the world economy and to promote a discussion of ideas that can advance the goal of a widely shared global prosperity.

Two years after the 2015 Paris Agreement, where we stand today is better than you may think 

A discussion with Michael Grubb, INET Grantee and Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College of London.

The path to holding fossil fuel producers accountable for climate change & climate damages 

Climate Change and Denial

Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Spence and a global team of leading thinkers are calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy

Faced with rapid cost reductions for clean electricity generation, some commentators suggest that we no longer need the Paris agreement or other policy interventions, because technology alone can solve all problems.

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord sets the US economy back

Ocean expert Peter Neill says the watery depths hold solutions to earth’s most pressing challenges

The energy transition is happening. But the pace of change depends on a range of technical, business, and societal factors.

The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) are organizing India’s first “Law Economic Policy Conference (LPEC 2016)”. The aim is to bring together economic, legal and policy thinkers together to consider policy issues in a holistic manner.