‘Green business’ – The economics of global warming – global economic overviews.

Highlights

Emma Duncan is one of today’s most incisive writers and thinkers on the economics and business of sustainability. She is author of "The Heat Is On", The Economist’s first special report on the subject, published in September 2006, and of "Cleaning Up: Business and Climate Change", published in June 2007. Now Emma has written another special report for The Economist, "Stopping Climate Change", published December 2009.

As deputy editor of The Economist, Emma has travelled the world researching this subject and has had access to top business and political leaders. She uses their insights, along with her understanding of the economic framework of the subject, to explain how business should react to the challenges and opportunities climate change poses, and how business can help solve this intractable problem.

Emma also offers an extremely well-informed overview of the global economic outlook that is especially valuable for non-specialist, non-economist audiences.

She also moderates with ease, insight and wit, and has worked with some of the world’s top executives.

Emma Duncan is the Deputy Editor of The Economist, the world’s preeminent weekly news and business journal, where she also has been Media Editor, Asia Editor and South Asia Correspondent, and Britain Editor.

She writes a regular column for The Evening Standard and is the author of Breaking the Curfew, which examines Pakistan politics and society. She contributes regularly to radio and tv programmes.

Emma is a clear and powerful speaker and can engage with audiences at all levels on the subject of sustainability.

Business and Climate Change

Emma is unusually upbeat about the possibility of solving climate change. Business, she argues, caused global warming, and business can solve it. Despite governments’ unwillingness to create the necessary incentives, companies are already investing in clean energy. The costs of the necessary technologies are falling fast, and breakthroughs in crucial new technologies are close at hand. The principal problem, she argues, is neither technological nor economic but political: governments need to give business the right signals.

Specialist subjects:

Climate change

Global economy

British economy

British politics

The media

Pakistan

Credentials

• Deputy Editor, The Economist
• Columnist, The Evening Standard
• Author, Breaking the Curfew
• Other Economist positions:
  • Media Editor
  • Asia Editor
  • South Asia Correspondent
  • Britain Editor