Talk
Transitions: climate change, green paradox and inequalities
February 19 2025, 6.00pm
Free admission upon registration
What are the problems, obstacles and paradoxes related to climate change? We discuss these in a talk, part of the program leading up to the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities (May 13 – November 9, 2025), with a number of international scholars who address the issue, focusing on obstacles to climate policies and proposing interventions for a greener and more equitable future. The talk also focuses on some structural paradoxes related to global inequalities, such as the “resource curse,” in which resource-rich countries remain stagnant economically and socially, and the so-called “green paradox,” which concerns policies to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which can cause, in the short run, more emissions.
Speakers include
Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford
Sergio Vergalli and Ilenia Romani, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Rick van der Ploeg, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, Research Director of Oxford Centre for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, and Research Fellow of CEPR, CESifo and the Tinbergen Institute.
Sergio Vergalli, Full Professor – Economic Policy – University of Brescia (UniBS), Program Director – Modelling the Energy Transition – Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
Ilenia Romani, Researcher in the program RAw Materials for the Energy Transition at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), PhD Candidate in Economics at University of Brescia (UniBS).
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The talk is held in English
Credits
In collaboration with: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
The event is the first in a series of talks, organized with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), featuring some of the world's leading researchers in dialogue with female researchers from the Foundation.
