The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties, more commonly referred to as COP28, is the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference. This year’s annual summit at Expo City, Dubai ends on December 12, 2023. Before it began on November 30, we invited Igor Shishlov, lecturer at HEC Paris in Climate Change Economics, to discuss the evolution of the international climate regime over the past 30 years before arriving to COP 28. Shishlov is also the Head of Climate Finance at Perspectives Climate Group and has been researching environmental economics for over a decade. These are extracts of his November 23 RESKILL Masterclass.
Because of Europe’s strong social welfare tradition, the social dimension of business has an additional legitimacy and urgency here. Top-quality research and teaching have an essential role to play in understanding growing inequalities which hinder the urgently needed ecological transition, in interrogating the environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, their interplay and their promise and limitations, in leveraging theory and the most ambitious empirical methods. As a leading business school and research center in France and Europe, HEC Paris’ faculty has a responsibility in providing science-based evidence and practical tools to reinvent the business of tomorrow.