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Complexity & The Politics of the Green Energy Transition
Event Summary
An increasing sense of urgency about climate change seems to be fueling momentum for national policies designed to hasten a transition to a net zero carbon economy. A rapid green transition is a massive and complex task, entailing difficult tradeoffs and value choices that are not featuring as prominently in the policy debate as one might expect.
In this presentation, David Spence (Univ. of Texas and EnergyTradoffs.com) will explore these tradeoffs, the troubling reasons why we under-attend to them in today’s policy debates, and how they are likely to become important hurdles to overcome when cobbling together a legislative majority in favor of meaningful, durable climate action.
This is a Climate Week event co-hosted by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and the Business, Climate and Environment Lab of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
David Spence
Baker Botts Chair in Law, University of TexasDavid Spence is professor of Business, Government & Society at UT-Austin’s McCombs School of Business. His research and teaching focuses on government regulation of the energy industry: broadly defined to include economic and environmental regulation of the entire energy sector.
Sarah Light
Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, WhartonSarah E. Light is professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School. Her research examines issues at the intersection of environmental law, corporate sustainability, and business innovation.
