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Innovation for Planetary Health: Energy Transition and the Next Industrial Revolution

17 Oct 2018 | Lectures & webinars

Innovation in technologies and systems is critical to addressing planetary health challenges. But what can be done to ensure that innovation systems respond effectively with positive social, environmental and economic consequences?

In this joint Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health–Oxford Martin School lecture, Michael Grubb, Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College London and Member of the Economic Council Secretariat, speaks on how accelerating innovation in energy systems can be fostered by public policy, to shape a new industrial revolution generating fair and global solutions for planetary health.

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Innovation for planetary health: Energy transition and the next industrial revolution

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