LSE has launched the Global School of Sustainability, a centre of expertise which supports the global efforts to shape a brighter future for all that is sustainable, resilient, hopeful, prosperous and inclusive.
The Global School of Sustainability convenes world-leading experts across the social sciences and beyond to inform policy on the economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protections crucial to ensuring a sustainable future. It provides training and development to future leaders through scholarship support, and pioneers research through innovative projects and the Global Sustainability Research Fund.
The new School benefits from LSE’s inclusive and collaborative interdisciplinary approach that draws from our faculty’s expertise across the social sciences. It builds on and complements further the pathbreaking work of the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment and the existing outstanding contributions from academic departments and researchers across LSE.
Describing the importance of the School when it was announced last year, the Global School of Sustainability's inaugural Chair, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, said: “The world is on an unsustainable path of growth and development. There is a real urgency to act to avoid the immense risks we face and there are great opportunities in a new and different path. But the challenges of creating that new way are difficult and deep. The obstacles lie in large measure in the economics, the politics, and society. They are also inescapably international. Thus, LSE is surely the right place for the crucial academic work and policy analysis to take place.”