Session 5: The elephant in the room: the environment

HEC Montréal

Goals

5.4 bn of people will be in a position of sufferering from high or extreme water scarcity in 2040 according to IEP. What will be the consequences?

Background readings

• https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/tragedy-of-the-commons-impact-on-sustainability-issues

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243

• https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ETR_2020_web-1.pdf

• The Economist Intelligence Unit. 2021. COP26 and the Business Environment

• Parry I., Black S., Vernon N.. 2021. Still Not Getting Energy Prices Right: A Global and Country Update of Fossil Fuel Subsidies

• IMF: https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies

• https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ETR-2021-web.pdf

Presentation

Tools

• File archive and whiteboard

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