Webinar: Obstacles to climate policies and how they are [sometimes] overcome
Date: 17 November 2023
Time: 12:15-13:00
Place: Zoom
Fast, fair and transformative societal change is necessary to curb both climate change and biodiversity loss. This transformation should include effective policies and other mechanisms to steer companies, governments and individuals, course-correcting where needed.
Yet now, at the halfway mark of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, subsidies that are harmful to the environment – despite climate policies calling for their phasing out – are increasing rather than decreasing. This raises questions of which conditions and strategies that are most important for overcoming the obstacles to a fast, fair and transformative societal change. Where have climate policies worked well, and what can be learned from these cases and, ideally, be applied in other cases?
At this exclusive ClimBEco webinar, Associate professor Jakob Skovgaard from the Department of Political Science, Lund University and a BECC PI, will talk about obstacles to climate and to an extent biodiversity policies and how they are sometimes overcome, drawing mainly on the example of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform.
Time for discussion will follow the talk.
Read more about Jakob's research on the Lund University research portal (lu.se)
Register below by 17 November. Any questions can be sent to the ClimBEco coordinator Cheryl cheryl [dot] sjostrom [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (cheryl[dot]sjostrom[at]cec[dot]lu[dot]se)
