The Labour Movement, the State and Climate Change - What Must be Done to Prevent Catastrophe
Join UCL IIPP for the first in the Labour and Climate Change Lecture Series with Damon Silvers and explore the critical role workers and unions will play in the fight against climate change.
The Labour Movement, the State and Climate Change - What Must be Done to Prevent Catastrophe
25 Apr 2024, 17:30 – 19:00
The first public talk as part of the UCL IIPP Labour and Climate Change Series 2024 will explore the nature of climate change as both a political economy problem and an engineering problem, the implications of the increasingly alarming science of climate change, the nature of state action required to effectively fight climate change in the closing window we have left, and the critical role of workers, their unions and their political organisations in providing the political backing necessary for effective climate policy.
The lecture will be presented by Professor Damon Silvers
Visiting Professor in Labour Markets and Innovation
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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Professor Silvers was a member of the Biden-Harris Administration transition teams for Financial Regulatory Agencies and for the Treasury Department in 2020-2021, and served as the Deputy Chair of the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly known as the Bank Bailout, from 2008-2011. He has helped represent the U.S. labour movement at the UN COP, the OECD and the G-20 on numerous occasions, and has published extensively on financial regulation, labor law and public investment issues. Damon is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle.
Professor Silvers earned his Doctor of Laws from Harvard Law School with honors, his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School with high honors and is a Baker Scholar, and received his bachelors degree from Harvard College with highest honors. He also read history at Kings College, Cambridge.