Simon Dietz is an environmental economist with particular interests in climate change and sustainability. He has published research on a wide range of issues and works with governments, businesses and NGOs on topics of shared interest, such as carbon pricing, institutional investment, and insurance. Simon is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the Department of Geography and Environment. He is also Research Director of the LSE Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Centre, co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a CEPR Research Fellow, a CESifo Research Network Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a former Vice President and Council Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and was a Food System Economics Commissioner.
Selected recent publications
“Growth and adaptation to climate change in the long run” (with Bruno Lanz), European Economic Review, 175, 104982, 2025 (link to journal)
“Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties” (with Frances Moore, Moritz Drupp, James Rising, Ivan Rudik and Gernot Wagner), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(52), e2410733121, 2024 (link to journal)
“Introduction to integrated assessment modeling of climate change”, in Lint Barrage and Solomon Hsiang (eds.) Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change, North-Holland, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1-51, 2024 (link)
The Economics of the Food System Transformation (with Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Fabrice DeClerck et al.). Food System Economics Commission (FSEC), Global Policy Report, 2024 (download)
“Economic impacts of melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet” (with Felix Koninx), Nature Communications, 13, 5819, 2022 (link to journal)
“How ambitious are oil and gas companies’ climate goals?” (with Dan Gardiner, Valentin Jahn and Jolien Noels), Science, 374(6566), 405-408, 2021 (link to journal)
“Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system” (with James Rising, Thomas Stoerk and Gernot Wagner), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(34), e2103081118, 2021 (link to journal)
“Are economists getting climate dynamics right and does it matter?” (with Rick van der Ploeg, Armon Rezai and Frank Venmans), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(5), 895-921, 2021 (link to journal)
“Cumulative carbon emissions and economic policy: in search of general principles” (with Frank Venmans), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 96, 108-129, 2019 (download)
“The climate beta” (with Christian Gollier and Louise Kessler), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 87, 258-274, 2018 (download)