IES Seminar

A Pro-market Framework for Driving Decarbonization

Corporate decarbonization policy has stagnated under geopolitical and ideological divisions. Arguing that anthropogenic
emissions are driven by customer preferences and that such preferences can shift with improved information, I advocate for a new approach: an economy-wide system of reliable and comparable accounts of the embedded emissions in products to allow customers (and investors) to make more-informed decisions aligned with underlying beliefs. Such a robust accounting system can also create its own new demand, and together, these demand signals generate incentives for corporate innovation on more emissions-efficient products. I also offer a theory of change to (progressively) deploy the system worldwide.

 

Manasseh Meyer Building, Seminar Room 2-2
469 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259756
Mon 12 October 2026
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM

Karthik Ramanna

Karthik Ramanna

Professor of Business and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government,University of Oxford

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Tan-Soo Jie-Sheng

Tan-Soo Jie-Sheng

Assistant Professor and Director, Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)

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