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 CESifo Research Network Fellow, a Food System Economics Commissioner, 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.
Selected recent publications
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)
What Will Climate Change Cost the UK? Risks, Impacts and Mitigation for the Net Zero Transition (with James Rising, Marion Dumas et al.), London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2022 (link)
“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)
“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)
“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)