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CBDS Annual Lecture 2024 – Developmental Environmentalism: East Asia's Ambitious Green Energy Shift Explained

Date and time

Thursday 3. October 2024 at 14:00 to 16:00

Registration Deadline

Thursday 3. October 2024 at 09:00

Location

DH V.1.01, Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frederiksberg DH V.1.01
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg

CBDS Annual Lecture 2024 – Developmental Environmentalism: East Asia's Ambitious Green Energy Shift Explained

Event Description

 
Developmental Environmentalism: East Asia's Ambitious Green Energy Shift Explained
 
October 3, 14.00-16.00 followed by a reception
Copenhagen Business School, Dalgas Have V.1.01
 
Speaker:
Elizabeth Thurbon, Professor of International Political Economy, UNSW Australia
 
Why has East Asia emerged as the global leader in green energy industries but - until recently - lagged on carbon emission reduction? What is new and distinctive about East Asia's approach to the green energy transition, and what does it mean for the world? In the lecture, Elizabeth Thurbon answers these questions through a discussion of her new co-authored book Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia's Green Energy Transition. 
 
Developmental Environmentalism provides the first comprehensive account of East Asia's green energy shift through an analysis of the ambitious national strategies of China and South Korea. It shows how state actors have pursued a distinctively East Asian approach to transforming their energy systems, involving first the rapid creation of new green energy industries and then the coordinated destruction of fossil fuel incumbencies. This approach is aimed at establishing East Asian economies as leaders in the green industries of the future, while at the same time addressing the pressing environmental, social, and political problems associated with the carbon-intensive industries of the past. The book also assess the implications of developmental environmentalism for developed and developing countries, and the future of the global green shift in an era of geostrategic rivalry. It is available Open Access: https://academic.oup.com/book/46471?login=false. 
 
Discussants:
Cornel Ban, Associate Professor, IOA, CBS   
Leonard Seabrooke, Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology, IOA, CBS
 
Chair:
Lindsay Whitfield, Professor of Business and Development, CBS

 

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Copenhagen Business School
MSCevent
Phone: +45 3815 3815
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Organizer Contact Information

Copenhagen Business School
MSCevent
Phone: +45 3815 3815
event.msc@cbs.dk