Thomas Piketty: Inequality – Capital and Carbon in 21st Century

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A Kapuscinski Development Lecture

Keynote speech: Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics

 

Opening remarks by :

Frédéric Mion, President of Sciences Po

Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul, Head of the EU representation in Paris

Olivier Adam, Deputy Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, UN Development Programme;

 

Questions and Answers moderated by Yann Algan, Dean, Sciences Po School of Public Affairs.

 

 

Environmental degradation, in particular climate change (IPCC, 2014a), and rising economic inequalities, are two challenges for the decades to come. Both challenges endanger democratic institutions and social contracts. In order to address these two challenges, it is essential to better understand interactions between economic inequalities and environmental degradation.

In this lecture, Thomas Piketty will draw lessons from his work on world inequality dynamics (Capital in the 21st century, 2014).

He will also present from new research with Lucas Chancel looking at trends in the global inequality of carbon emissions (1998-2013) and analyzing prospects for an equitable adaptation fund”.

 

The Sciences Po School of Public Affairs hosts this lecture as part of he Kapuscinski development lectures, a programme jointly organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the European Commission, which invites top global thinkers to discuss development in European Universities.