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​​​​​​A Strategy for Restoring Confidence and Economic Growth through Green Investment and Innovation

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publications/Policy/docs/PB-Zenghelis-economic-growth-green-investment-innovation.pdf

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“What is the Role of Energy Innovation in Delivering a Secure, Affordable Low Carbon Economy?”
EuroNews, Comments Visions. Discussion. May 2012.
http://www.commentvisions.com/members/dzenghelis/

 

 

 

 


“We need a Queen’s Speech for Gowth”
With Nicholas Stern, Financial Times, May 2012.
http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/05/09/we-need-a-queens-speech-for-growth/?#axzz22V17y0eL

 

 

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Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. April 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Ten Principles for an Effective Business and Innovation Policy in the UK”.
The Growth Factory: 21st century industrial strategy for the UK. May 2012.
http://www.thegrowthfactory.co.uk/sectors/innovation

“Restoring growth and Confidence Through Green Innovation.”
e!Sharp. June 2012.
http://esharp.eu/big-debates/the-green-economy/44-restoring-growth-and-confidence-through-green-innovation/

“Green investments can overcome the paradox of thrift”
We need real public investment in Green projects now. New Statesman, June 2012.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/economics/2012/06/green-investments-can-overcome-paradox-thrift

“Delivering Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economic Growth in Europe”, presented at Salzburg Trilogue. The Trilogue included, among others, Baroness Ashton (European Commission VP and representative for Foreign Affairs), Pascal Lamy (DG of the WTO) and Wim Kok (President of the Club of Madrid).
http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xbcr/SID-B789C6CE-5805A606/bst_engl/xcms_bst_dms_36380__2.pdf

“Das Kommunale ist global. Der weltweite Klimawandel lässt sich nur durch Grüne Städte stoppenpaper” co-authored with Philipp Rode on green cities for the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
https://zeitschrift-ip.dgap.org/de/ip-die-zeitschrift/archiv/jahrgang-2012/juli-august/das-kommunale-ist-global

Submission to House of Lords inquiry into EU energy policy
October 2012
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/eu-sub-com-d/energy/energyevidence.pdf

“Making Sustainability Pay”
The Globalist in advance of COP-18
November  2012
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=9824

“Global Problems; City Solutions”
Article on Green Cities with Lord Stern,
December 2012
http://ec2012.lsecities.net/newspaper/articles/global-problems-city-solutions you.​

 

Publications, journals, articles, reviews 

This is not be up-to-date, see full cv for details)

2020 NEEDS UPDATING - SEE CV FOR LATEST
 

 

Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World : Climate Strategies of Fossil Fuel-Dependent Countries

Book. Zenghelis, D. with Peszko, G., van der Mensbrugghe, D, Golub, A and Ward, J. July 2020

World Bank, Washington, DC

 

Climate Strategies of Fossil Fuel-Dependent Countries

Article: Zenghelis, D. with Peszko, Midgley, A and Ward, J. July 2020

World Bank, Washington, DC

 

Strategy, Investment and Policy for a Strong and Sustainable Recovery: An Action Plan

Zenghelis, D. with Unsworth, S., and Valero, A. July 2020

Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics

 

Supplementary Report to the Committee on Climate Change

Zenghelis, D. with Ekins, P., Ishwaran, M., Newton-Smith, R., Summerton, P. and Turner, K. June 2020

Committee on Climate Chang

 

The 2021 biennial exploratory scenario on the financial risks from climate change

Zenghelis, D. with Bowen, A., Gambhir, A., Ganguly, G., Koberle, A., Pierfederici, R., Robins, N,, Surminski, S. and Ward B.  June 2020

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

Can policy steer us towards a greener and fairer recovery?

Zenghelis, D. May 2020

Economics of Coronavirus Observatory 

 

Building recovery and a better future by investing in complementary assets

Zenghelis, D. May 2020

Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge 

 

Build Back Better by Investing in Social and Human Capital

Zenghelis, D. May 2020

Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge 

 

Covid and climate – building a strong and sustainable recovery

Zenghelis, D.,  with Rydge, J. and Stern, N.. May 2020

LSE Business Review, London School of Economics

 

Will  COVID-19  fiscal  recovery  packages  accelerate  or  retard progress  on  climate change?’

Zenghelis, D., with Hepburn, C., O’Callaghan, B., Stern, N. and Stiglitz, J.. May 2020

Forthcoming in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy 36(S1)

 

‘A net-zero emissions economic recovery from COVID-19’

Zenghelis, D., with Allan, J., Donovan, C., Ekins, P., Gambhir, A., Hepburn, C., Robins, N., Reay, D., Shuckburgh E. May 2020

Smith School Working Paper 20-01, University of Oxford

 

COP26 Universities Network Briefing: A net-zero emissions economic recovery from COVID-19’

Zenghelis, D., with Allan, J., Donovan, C., Ekins, P., Gambhir, A., Hepburn, C., Robins, N., Reay, D., Shuckburgh E. May 2020

Imperial College, London

 

Now is the time for a strong, sustainable and inclusive recovery

Zenghelis, D., with Stern, N.. April 2020

OECD Covid-19 Hub

 

‘Valuing and investing in physical, human, natural and  social capital in the 14th Plan’

Zenghelis, D., with Stern, N. and Xie, C. April 2020

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

Strong, sustainable and inclusive growth in a new era for China Paper 1: Challenges and ways forward’

Zenghelis, D., with Hepburn, C., Stern, N. and Xie. C. April 2020

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

Policies to address the climate emergency and steer innovation

Zenghelis, D., March 2020

Lombard Odier

 

The case for a clean stimulus in the time of insecurity

Zenghelis, D., March 2020

Lombard Odier

 

‘Valuing wealth, building prosperity’

Zenghelis, D., with Agarwala, M., Coyle, D., Felici, M., Lu, S., March 2020

One-year Report of the Wealth Economy project on Social and Natural Capital, Cambridge

 

‘Delivering strong and sustainable growth in the UK’

Zenghelis, D., with Unsworth, S. Valero, A., Stern, S., Bowen, A., Robins, R., and Ward, R.E., March 2020

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

‘Finance for a future London’

London Sustainable Development Commission, Finance Steering Group. March 2020

2019
 

‘Can we be green and grow?’

Zenghelis, D., November 2019

Lombard Odier

‘Securing decarbonisation and growth’

Zenghelis, D., November 2019

in Beyond Brexit, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Economic Review, 250th edition

 

‘UK growth and competitiveness depends the net-zero-carbon economy’

Zenghelis, D., October 2019

in the ‘Putting people at the heart of the green transition’. IPPR, WWF

 

‘The future matters, so discount it with care’

Zenghelis, D., August 2019

Lombard Odier

 

Measuring wealth, delivering prosperity’

Zenghelis, D., with Agarwala, M., Coyle, D., Felici, M., Lu, S., July 2019

Interim Report of the Wealth Economy project on Social and Natural Capital

 

‘Path dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change’

Zenghelis, D., with Aghion, P., Hepburn, C. and Teytelboym, A., July 2019

Chapter in the Handbook on Green Growth Fouquet, R.  Ed. Edward Elgar

 

Capital Offence – focusing on GDP rather than wealth jeopardises the future

Zenghelis, D., June 2019

Lombard Odier

 

Why the Chancellor’s statement on the cost of a net-zero transition in the UK could imperil the country’s climate ambitions

Zenghelis, D., June 2019

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

Zero-carbon future offers great possibilities

Zenghelis, D., June 2019

Letter, The FInancial Times

 

Report of the Advisory Group on Costs and Benefits of Net Zero

Zenghelis, D. with Ekins, P. Ishwaran, M. Newton-Smith, R., Summerton, P., and Turner, K.

May 2019

Committee on Climate Change

 

‘What happens when complacent economists meet a dynamic planet?’

Zenghelis, D., April 2019

Lombard Odier

 

‘Nobel for Economics 2018 – a question of imbalance’

Zenghelis, D., April 2019

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

‘Social and natural capital – why we should invest in it?’

Zenghelis, D., March 2019

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6)

Coordinating Lead Author, April 2019

UNEP

 

‘Mind over matter – how expectations generate wealth’

Zenghelis, D., February 2019

Bennett Institute for Public Policy Blog, Cambridge University

 

‘Social capital – the wealth all around us’

Zenghelis, D., February 2019

Bennett Institute for Public Policy Blog, Cambridge University

 

LSE Brexit Blog

 

The prospect of a hard Brexit is now in Corbyn’s hands

Zenghelis, D., October 2019

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

Don’t be fooled: the last thing Johnson wants is a no-deal Brexit

Zenghelis, D., August 2019

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

No deal is not in Johnson's interest. The threat of a second referendum might be

Zenghelis, D., June 2019

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

No, after you… why sequencing matters in a majoritarian numbers game

Zenghelis, D., January 2019

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

2018

 

‘Sustainable growth in the UK: seizing opportunities from the transition to a low-carbon economy’

Special Report to the LSE Growth Commission

Contributory author, December 2018

CEP and GRI Industrial Strategy Paper, London School of Economics

 

‘Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change’

Zenghelis, D., with Shepherd, T.G., Boyd, E., Calel, R.A. et al. November 2018

Climatic Change 151: 555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2317-9

 

‘Pre-2020 ambition on climate change’

Zenghelis, D with Averchenkova, A., October 2018

Policy paper. European Capacity Building Initiative

 

‘Innovative urbanisation: the next two decades are critical’

Zenghelis, D with Stern, N., September 2018

Chapter in Shaping Cities in an Urban Age. Phaidon

 

‘Stranded assets: then and now’

Zenghelis, D., Fouquet, R., and Hippe, R. May 2018

Chapter 2 in ‘Stranded Assets and the Environment: Risk, Resilience, and Opportunity’. Ben Caldecott (Editor). Routledge

 

The role of modeling and scenario development in long-term strategies

Zenghelis, D. April 2018

WRI Expert Perspectives

The price of oil - peak incoherence

Zenghelis, D., and Llewellyn J. March 2018

Global Note with Llewellyn Consulting, London

LSE Brexit Blog

‘Staying in the EU would not be perfect. But it’s the best deal on offer’

Zenghelis, D., November 2018

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

BRINO satisfies no-one. The Brexit wrangles are far from over’

Zenghelis, D., November 2018

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

‘The Brexit dividend: expect a lost decade of economic underperformance and political crisis’

Zenghelis, D., July 2018

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

‘Hurricane Brexit’ – or why economists should admit they can’t always get it right’

Zenghelis, D., March 2017

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

 

2017
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Nodes of capital: cities, wealth and the era of urbanisation

Zenghelis, D., Chapter 16 in ‘National Wealth: What is missing, why it matters’. Hepburn, C. (Editor) and Hamilton, K. (Editor). Oxford University Press. September 2017

Climate Policy and the impact of Quantitative Easing

Campiglio, E., Matikainen, S. and Zenghelis, D., May 2017

Policy paper by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics.

Consultation response: ‘Building our Industrial Strategy

Bowen, A., Carvalho, M., Fankhauser, S., Matikainen, S., Ward, R.E and Zenghelis, D., April 2017

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

Equity and national mitigation

Zenghelis, D., January 2017

Nature Climate Change

2016
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This is humankind's 'great urbanisation'. Do it right, or the planet will pay

Zenghelis, D. and Stern, N., November 2016

The Guardian

It’s too early to say Britain has had a Brexit boost

Zenghelis, D., September 2016

Newsweek

Fog in the Channel: reports of a Brexit boost are at best premature

Zenghelis, D., September 2016

Brexit Blog, London School of Economics

Boosting economic growth and stabilising the public finances

Zenghelis, D. August, 2016

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, LSE. Commentary 

 

 

Building sustainable 21st century infrastructure (Part 1): time to invest

Zenghelis, D. August 2016.

Policy brief. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, LSE. August 2016

 

 

Building sustainable 21st century infrastructure (Part 2): institutional reform

Zenghelis, D. August 2016.

Policy brief. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, LSE. August 2016

 

 

Decarbonisation, innovation and the economics of climate change

Zenghelis, D., Chapter 12 in ‘Redefining Capitalism’ July 2016. Michael Jacobs (Editor) and Mariana Mazzucato (Editor), 2016, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-119-12095-7.

 

 

When will we know Brexit’s impact on the economy? Dates for the diary

Zenghelis, D. July 2016.

BrexitVote Blog. London School of Economics.

 

 

The importance of looking forward to manage risks: submission to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures

Stern, N. and Zenghelis, D. June 2016.

Policy paper by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

 

 

Climate Confidence Indicator

McDowall, W. and Zenghelis, D. March 2016.

Final Report to CCCEP’. GRI Working Paper 231. Joint with UCL.

 

 

The role of HM Treasury in relation to sustainable development and environmental protection

February 2016

Submission to inquiry on by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.

 

 

A breakthrough in Paris

Zenghelis, D. February. 2016.

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics Blog

 

 

The competitiveness impact of a UK carbon price: what do the data say?

Grover, D., Shreedhar, G. and Zenghelis, D., January 2016.

Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics. Policy Paper.

 

2014
2015
Too soon to declare that Europe has ‘made the wrong bet’

Letter to Financial Times, December 2015

 

 

Written evidence to Environmental Audit Committee

Submitted by the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London

Bassi, S., Fankhauser, S., Hirst, N., Ward R.E and Zenghelis, D., January 2015

 

 

Climate change priorities for the next UK Government

Bassi, S., Duffy, C., Gambhir, A., Ward, R. E. and Zenghelis, D., March 2015

 

 

From Rome to Paris: a Call for Strong and Urgent Climate Action

International Symposium on Climate Change and World Development

Joint author, June 2015

 

 

Innovating for a Sustainable Economy

Statkraft Climate Roundtable, June 2015

 

 

A cost-effective balance between taxes on fossil fuel pollution and support for cleaner alternatives

GRI Blog. Bowen, A., Ward, R.E., Zenghelis, D., July 2015

 

 

UK Treasury should focus on carbon not energy use

Bassi, S., Duffy C., Fankhauser, S., Ward R.E. and Zenghelis, D., November 2015

 

 

The greatest threat to the COP21 negotiations

World Economic Forum Weforum, November 2015

 

 

Climate change and cities: a prime source of problems, yet key to a solution

Zenghelis, D. and Stern, N., The Guardian. November 2015

 

Path-dependency, innovation and the economics of climate change

With P. Aghion, C. Hepburn and A. Teytelboym, GRI LSE and New Climate Economy, forthcoming

 

The competitiveness impact of a UK carbon price: what do the data say?

With David Grover and Ganga Shreeder, forthcoming

 

Burden or Opportunity? How UK Emissions Reductions Policies Affect the Competitiveness of Businesses

With Samuela Bassi, Grantham Research Institute, July 2014

 

Copenhagen - Green Economy Leader Report

LSE, May 2014

 

Richard Tol's flawed claims about the Stern Review

Business Spectator, April 2014

 

Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis respond to publication of new climate change report

CCEP Media Release, April 2014

 

In praise of a green stimulus

WIREs Climate Change, 5:7–14. doi: 10.1002/wcc.256 January 2014

 

Thinking Aloud Tackling Climate Change Can the cities lead?

With Philipp Rode. Center for Urban Green Spaces Vol. 1 No. 4, January 2014

2013

Greening the Recovery

UCL Green Economic Policy Commission, Final Report, December 2013

There are good economists and bad economists

Business Green Dec 23 2013

 

Why economic models tell us so little about the future

Business Green Sep 18, 2013

 

Interview Journal of Environmental Investing

Vol 4, No 1 (2013) – Sept 2013

 
The politics and economics of change

Business Green July 2013

 

Stockholm - Green Economy Leader Report

Economics of Green Cities Programme, LSE June 2013

 

Driving Growth Through Green Innovation

Chapter 12, The Green Book, Summer 2013

 

No Country is an Energy Island: Securing Investment for the EU's Future

European Union Committee, Evidence with Martin Wolf – May 2013

 

How innovation could deliver a virtuous green growth spiral

Business Green, May 8, 2013

 

The economics of resource efficient cities

GA Inside Track Spring 2013

 

Why Now is the Best Possible Time to Invest in Green Growth

Business Green, May 2013

A Credible Strategy to Stimulate Growth

The ENDS Report​, February 2013

Driving Growth Through Green Innovation

​Chapter 12, The Green Book 2013

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The Economics of Resource Efficient Cities

Inside Track, Green Alliance, April 2013

 

2012

​​​​​​​A Strategy for Restoring Confidence and Economic Growth through Green Investment and Innovation​​

Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. April 2012.​​​​​​​​​​​

​​​​​​​​​​​​We need a Queen’s Speech for Growth

With Nicholas Stern, Financial Times, May 2012.​​
 

Energy Innovation and the Low Carbon Economy?

EuroNews, Comments Visions. Discussion. May 2012.​​

Ten Principles for an Effective UK Business and Innovation Policy

The Growth Factory: 21st century industrial strategy for the UK. May 2012.​​
 

Restoring growth and Confidence Through Green Innovation

e!Sharp. June 2012.​​
 

Green investments can overcome the paradox of thrift

New Statesman, June 2012.

Delivering Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economic Growth in Europe

Presented at Salzburg Trilogue with Baroness Ashton, Pascal Lamy and Wim Kok 2012 

Das Kommunale ist global. Der weltweite Klimawandel lässt sich nur durch Grüne Städte stoppenpaper

Co-authored with Philipp Rode on green cities for the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
 

Submission to House of Lords inquiry into EU energy policy

October 2012.​​
 

Making Sustainability Pay

The Globalist in advance of COP-18, November 2012.​
 

Global Problems; City Solutions

with Nicholas Stern, December 2012.

Green growth begins with green shoots

Environmental Scientist, December 2012.​

2011

​A Macroeconomic Plan for a Green Recovery
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, LSE, January 2011.
 

The Economics of Network Powered Growth
Cisco, January 2011.
 

Trade, Technology and the Green Economy
Chapter Author, UNCTAD "The Road to Rio+20: For a Development-led Green Economy," forwarded by Jeff Sachs. April 2011.

City Solutions to Climate Problems
Chapter author with Philipp Rode and Nicholas Stern
“Living in the Endless City” June 2011.

 

Enough Already
Review of Diane Coyle’s book “The Economics of Enough”, Nature, Climate Change. May 2011.

Grasping the Opportunity
Inside Track Magazine’ Green Alliance group, Issue 28 Spring (With Dieter Helm, Diane Coyle and Joseph Ackermann)

The Basic Economics of Low-Carbon Growth in the UK
With Mattia Romani and Nicholas Stern. Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, June 2011.
 

Networked Solutions for 21st-Century Challenges; The Economics of Complexity and Scarcity, and the Role of Networked Innovation
Cisco IBSG November 2011.

2009-2010

An Outline on the Case for a ‘Green’ Stimulus
with Alex Bowen, Sam Fankhauser and Nicholas Stern. Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science,  Feb 2009

Principles for a Global Deal for Limiting the Risks from Climate Change
with Nicholas Stern, Environmental Resource Economics, April 2009
(Translated into Spanish and Portuguese by the IADB and UN ECLAC).


Meeting the Climate Challenge: Using Public Funds to Leverage Private Investment in Developing Countries
With Alex Bowen and Mattia Romani, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, Aug 2009

 

Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change
Chapter author in book, published October 2009

 

Copenhagen Discord: Bottom-Up Investing in a Global Landscape
The Journal of Environmental Investing, Vol 1, No 1 (March 2010)

Science Fact, Climate Fiction—Clarifying the Debate
American Scientist, May-June 2010

Joint Critique of Bjørn Lomborg's Pronouncements on Climate Change
With Alex Bowen, Simon Dietz and Bob Ward, The Guardian, September 2 2010

Fostering a New era of Low-Carbon Progress and Prosperity
With Nicholas Stern,  ‘Climate Change The New Economy’ published at COP 16 in Cancun. p22: December 2010

2007-2008

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
HM Treasury and Cabinet Office

 

Reflections on the Stern Review: A Robust Case for Strong Action to Reduce the Risks of Climate Change
with Simon Dietz, Chris Hope, and Nicholas Stern, World Economics 8.1, pp.121-168, 2007
 

Right for the Right Reasons: A Final Rejoinder on the Stern Review
with Dennis Anderson, Simon Dietz, Nicholas Stern and Chris Taylor, World Economics 8.2, pp.229-258, 2007

The State Of Responsible Competitiveness 2007
Foreword by Hon. Al Gore, Accountability 2007, Chapter author, p47
 

The Question of Global Warming: An Exchange
with William Nordhaus and Leigh Sullivan, The New York Review of Books, 15.14, 2008

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