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 Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre, co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a member of the Council of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a CESifo Research Network Fellow, a Food Systems Economics Commissioner, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Selected recent publications
“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)
“Strategic decarbonisation options for the UK” (with Sam Fankhauser), in Francesco Caselli, Alexander Ludwig and Rick van der Ploeg (eds.) No Brainers and Low-Hanging Fruit in National Climate Policy, London: CEPR Press, 2021 (download)
“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)
“Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon (with Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Kenneth Gillingham, Ben Groom, Paul Kelleher, Frances Moore and James Stock), Nature, 590, 548-550, 2021 (link to journal)
“Pricing ambiguity in catastrophe risk insurance” (with Falk Niehoerster), Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 46(2), 112-132, 2021 (download)
“The endowment effect, discounting and the environment” (with Frank Venmans), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 97, 67-91, 2019 (download)
“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)
“Ambiguity and insurance: capital requirements and premiums” (with Oliver Walker), Journal of Risk and Insurance, 86(1), 213-235, 2019
“An assessment of climate action by high-carbon global corporations” (with Charles Fruitiere, Carlota Garcia-Manas, William Irwin, Bruno Rauis and Rory Sullivan), Nature Climate Change, 8, 1072-175, 2018 (download)
“The economics of 1.5°C climate change” (with Alex Bowen, Baran Doda, Ajay Gambhir and Rachel Warren), Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 43, 18.1-18.26, 2018 (download)
“The climate beta” (with Christian Gollier and Louise Kessler), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 87, 258-274, 2018 (download)