PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Co-optimizing Economic Welfare, Energy Supply and Demand, Environment, and Employment
Nicholas Ashford
Tue Jan 12, 05-07:00pm, E51-145
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Environment and employment are essential concerns of sustainable transformations, focusing on co-optimizing economic welfare, environment, and employment in an integrated, rather than merely coordinated, manner through both regulation and the correct incentives. This involves (1) broadening and opening the policy agenda beyond environmental concerns; (2) removing perverse incentives for unsustainable practices; (3) avoiding lock-in and agenda/government capture by incumbent industry and stakeholders; and (4) government acting as a trustee for industrial transformations, not merely a referee of competing interests. Finally, the necessary and sufficient conditions for change must be addressed in policy initiatives: willingness, opportunity/motivation, and capacity for the private sector, government, and people to change.
Contact: Aaron Thom, athom@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
Latest update: 07-Jan-2010
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