15 September 2021

New Summits

Project Syndicate Panel Discussion and Q&A with International Media

15 September 2021
13:00 UTC (9:00 am New York time) Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

13:05 UTC "The New Green Economics"
The unprecedented scale and urgency of the climate crisis has led many economists to question long-held assumptions and demand new thinking. How should the discipline evolve to account for today’s climatic and ecological realities?

Panel Discussion and Q&A with International Media:
Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT
Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)
Mamphela Remphele, Co-President of the Club of Rome, Co-Founder of ReimagineSA
Gernot Wagner, Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU

13:50 Hailemariam Desalegn, Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia

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Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification

by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner

10 Sep 25

Early Investment in Decarbonization Can Help Save Trillions in Climate Costs

A net-zero world by 2100 is likely inevitable, but the next decade will be critical for securing a livable future.

10 Sep 25

Getting to Greener Steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

25 Sep 25