June 2024
In this month's newsletter:
The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms
Our next webinar, June 26
A-Track Project Launch & ConsultationÂ
Help shape this project to support action for nature restoration
LSE Environment Week: Call for Papers
Submit your work by June 28
Notices
Call for responses to UK Party manifestos:Â
With the UK election campaign underway, we are interested to hear your thoughts on manifestos and campaign commitments as they relate to climate and nature. This will inform a special briefing later this month. To give your thoughts, analysis, or offer a quote, please email us in the coming weeks at uknee@uknee.org.uk
JEEM Call for Papers: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management on sustainability under limited natural capital substitutability: link
IPBES Stakeholder Review: 2nd Global Biodiversity Assessment Scoping Report, reviews by June 30. Click to join the stakeholder network
The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms: Our Next UKNEE Webinar
In our next webinar, on 26th June, Marion Leroutier will join us to discuss her paper (joint with Hélène Ollivier) showing even moderate levels of air pollution, such as those found in Europe, harm the economy by decreasing firm performance.
The work estimates the causal effect of fine particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) on firms’ monthly sales and worker absenteeism, finding that a 10% increase in monthly PM2.5 exposure decreases sales in the following two months by 0.4% on average, with significant heterogeneity across economic sectors, and increases worker absenteeism by 1%, underscoring the negative effects of air pollution on workers’ health. Findings also suggest that sales losses are an order of magnitude larger than would be expected if worker absenteeism was the only reason for such losses, indicating other detrimental economic effects of air pollution.
In the webinar, Marion will detail her research process and there will be time for Q&A.
Click here to become an UKNEE member and access our webinar recordings.
A-Track (Accelerating Transformation through Capitals Knowledge)
Last month, the Capitals Coalition announced its participation in A-Track, a new Horizon EU project that aims to accelerate action for nature that needs to be taken by businesses, financial institutions, and governments. The goal for A-Track is to make it easier for organisations to identify the most appropriate way forward for their sector and scale, to unlock the most relevant natural capital and biodiversity information for a range of applications and ultimately make more informed decisions that accelerate action for nature positive outcomes.  Â
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It’s an exciting time for environmental economics: A-Track is one of an increasing number of research- and market-driven initiatives that are using methods and evidence developed by our profession. We wanted to bring this one to your attention so that the project can benefit from the collective experience of the UKNEE community. Many business leaders and decision makers will be new to this space and the knowledge and experience you all hold will be invaluable in enabling them to take effective action.
In this light, we encourage you to engage with and share A-Track’s Capability and Needs survey, to help shape and have early access to project outputs such as training materials, guides, and case studies that will benefit business practices across regions and industries.
LSE Environment Week 2024: call for Papers
Submit your work by June 28
The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department are convening the third Environment Week at the London School of Economics and Political Science LSE on 23-26 September 2024.
The conference programme focuses on achieving a more sustainable balance between human activity and the natural environment, while maintaining economic growth, and the substantial innovation this requires in in multiple directions: including finding ways to make economic growth cleaner, controlling environmental externalities, and protecting human populations from environmental change.
To identify and explore these innovations, LSE are inviting submissions from all fields of economics, including development, macroeconomics, industrial organisation, public, finance, labour, trade, urban, theory, behavioural, political economy, environmental, energy, and climate.
The deadline is 28 June, successful authors will be notified by July 31st. Only submissions of full papers will be considered. There is no fee to participate in the conference. Travel and accommodation funding is available for presenters. Limited spots will be available for non-presenters to attend and registration will be open closer to the time.
For more information and to submit your paper, please visit the conference website.