Fergus Green

Biography

  Fergus Green is a researcher and climate policy consultant based at the London School of Economics & Political Science. From January 2014 to October 2015, Fergus was a Policy Analyst and Research Advisor to Professor Stern at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics & Policy. In that role he was primarily responsible for providing academic and policy-related research assistance and advice to Professor Stern. He was also a Policy Analyst within the Institute’s Policy Team, working on projects relating to international climate cooperation, climate policy in China, and various theoretical topics concerning climate change mitigation policy. Fergus is currently an MRes/PhD candidate in Political Science in the LSE Department of Government and he remains actively involved with the Institute.

Research Interest

    Global climate change governance and international cooperation; Climate change policy in China, the UK and Australia; The role of government in fostering structural economic change; Ideal vs non-ideal (first vs second best) approaches to climate policy; The regulation of fossil fuels / “Unburnable Carbon”