A presentation by Marion Dumas (Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, LSE). This event is part of the Sustainability Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Sustainability.
At this Sustainability Colloquium, Marion Dumas (Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, LSE), will first present an analysis of the coordination dynamics between fuel cell and battery technologies in the transition to clean cars. This analysis argues that the choice between these two technologies posed a global and multisectoral coordination game, due to technological complementarities and the global organization of the industry’s markets and supply chains. The second part of the talk will outline what this case teaches us more broadly about coordination challenges in the transition to net-zero.
Following the presentation, attendees will have the chance to discuss and ask questions. This session will be moderated by Christian Flachsland.
Speaker
Marion Dumas is an environmental economist and political economist, also trained as an environmental scientist, broadly interested in how to reform both economic policies and institutions to contend with planetary boundaries. She has previously done research on how environmental legal regimes develop, how they empower green constituencies and become capable of shaping the exercise of political power in a durable way.
Marion holds a B.Sc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from MIT, a M.Sc in Environmental Sciences from the ETH Zurich, and a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University (during which she trained as an economist and political scientist). Before coming to LSE, Marion was an Omidyar postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.