CfP: LSE Mini-Conference on Distributive Consequences of Climate and Environmental Policy - November 2026
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Liam Beiser-McGrath
May 29, 2026, 10:30:16 AM (12 days ago) May 29
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Please find details about a mini-conference I am organising at LSE this November.
Nicholas Watts
Jun 1, 2026, 11:48:17 AM (9 days ago) Jun 1
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Dear Liam,
Thank you for your kind invitation to the mini-conference in November. I am interested in attending, although there is some uncertainty for me regarding the date, as I am attending the CHOGM conference in Antigua in the first week of November and had planned to do some SIDS fieldwork the following week. I will apply before the deadline, as I will have finalised my arrangements by then.
You may have seen “Distributional Conflicts in Environment-Resource Policy” (which I co-edited with Allan Schnaiberg and Klaus Zimmermann) (Gower/WZB Publications 1986). This present a welcome opportunity to reflect on some of the attempts to address these conflicts in the 40 years since our publication. This is certainly an important and timely conference, given the geopolitical quagmire into which environmental policy has been dragged! Unfortunately, I cannot prepare the paper with Allan and Klaus as they are both now deceased.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
Dr Nicholas S J Watts FRSASenior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of LondonSpecial Projects Advisor, Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM)Chair, UN SIDS partnership "Learning from the Sharp End of Environmental Uncertainty in SIDS”Convenor Caribbean Studies Association: Working Group on Environment and SustainabilityMember, IUCN Commission on Education and CommunicationEditorial Board: Case Studies in Environment, University of California PressFounding Chair (2016-25) Independent Forum of Commonwealth Organisations (IFCO)Contact:Tel/WhatsApp +44 7515 393 127
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<small-header-image.x2eccb4ac.webp>Mini-Conference
Date: 12-13th November 2026
Venue: London School of Economics and Political Science
Convenor: Dr Liam F. Beiser-McGrath (LSE)
Application deadline: 28th June 2026The LSE’s Global School of Sustainability, in collaboration with the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at the Department of Social Policy, are accepting paper proposals for a 2-day mini-conference to be held on the 12-13th November 2026.
Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but a distributive one. As governments pursue decarbonisation and protect the environment, the costs and benefits of policy fall unevenly across regions, income groups, sectors, and countries. Carbon pricing can impose regressive burdens on lower-income households. Green industrial policy creates new economic winners while displacing established industries and their workforces. Communities in the Global South face the greatest physical risks from climate change and environmental degradation while often contributing least to its causes and possessing the fewest resources to adapt. These distributional dynamics are generating new patterns of contestation that speak to emerging debates in social policy and climate politics.
This mini-conference brings together an international community of researchers to examine the policy and politics of climate change through a distributive lens. It asks who bears the costs of decarbonisation and environmental (in)action, who captures its benefits, and how these distributional stakes shape the coalitions, public attitudes, and institutional arrangements that determine whether ambitious climate action is politically sustainable. By centring questions of inequality, compensation, social protection, and political feasibility, the mini-conference positions climate policy as a core concern for the future of social policy scholarship.
Themes
We particularly invite paper submissions addressing any of the following five thematic areas, although this is not a strict requirement. Submissions that bridge themes, take comparative or cross-regional perspectives, or engage substantively with the Global South are particularly welcome.
1. Inequality and the politics of climate policy
2. Cities, public goods, and climate adaptation
3. Welfare states, eco-social policy, and the green transition
4. Climate risk, migration, and vulnerability
5. International and comparative political economy of climate action
Format
The mini-conference runs over two days and combines paper panels with structured reflections from invited scholars. Each thematic block consists of a traditional panel of paper presentations with Q&A, followed by an extended reflection from the invited speaker for that block as well as time for joint discussion on current and future research in these areas.
There is no conference fee and refreshments and food will be provided during the conference, as well as a conference dinner.
Confirmed Speakers
- Federica Genovese (University of Oxford)
- Vally Koubi (ETH Zurich/University of Bern)
- Aseem Prakash (Georgetown University)
- Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (University of Bern)
- Alice Xu (University of Pennsylvania)
Poster Track
Depending on the volume of submissions and available funding, we may also organise a poster session as part of the program. Applicants who would like to be considered for the poster track in addition to the paper panels should indicate this on their submission. Indicating an interest in presenting at the poster session will not affect the decision made about your paper presentation submission.
Funding for Early Career Researchers
Limited support is available for early career researchers without access to research funding travelling to London for the mini-conference. Applicants who would like to be considered for accommodation support should indicate this on their submission and provide a brief justification of need.
Applications
To apply, please submit:
- A paper title and abstract of up to 500 words
- An indication of the primary thematic block your paper addresses
- Whether you would like to be considered for the poster track
- Whether you wish to be considered for ECR support
Applications should be submitted through this form: https://forms.gle/Vv8f4K2uvCGMeoAd6 by 28th June 2026.
Dr. Liam F. Beiser-McGrathAssociate Professor in International Social and Public Policy,London School of Economics and Political ScienceEditor, Environmental PoliticsOrganiser, EPG Online--
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