Economics of Climate

About ECO

The Economics of Climate Organization (ECO) serves as a bridge between frontier economics and climate policy. A global, collaborative initiative between leading economists and policy makers, it aims to inject new thinking into the design and implementation of climate policies by leveraging analytical advances and the best possible data from all fields of economics.

By placing mitigation and adaptation at the core of economic policy, ECO aims to support decision-makers in designing policies that address climate challenges at scale and speed and facilitate improvements in human welfare. In doing so, ECO directly supports the COP Action Agenda, mobilizing the analytical capacity of leading economists to enrich the debate on adaptation, energy, deforestation, carbon markets, climate finance, and helps decision-makers turn the Action Agenda's ambitions into implementable policy.

This initiative is a partnership between the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Columbia University, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Yale University, MIT, and the University of Chicago, and is hosted at the Economics of Environment and Energy (EEE) Programme at the LSE, in collaboration with the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) and the International Growth Centre (IGC).