Does improving people’s lives require ever-higher carbon emissions? François Gemenne, professor at HEC Paris and a lead author of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, joins Daniel Brown to discuss why climate disasters do not automatically produce action - and why presenting the transition as a burden can deepen climate fatigue. He explains the “Champagne Curve”, identified in his latest research: once countries reach a very high level of human development, additional carbon consumption no longer corresponds to greater well-being. Our Breakthroughs conversation explores the injustice at the heart of climate change, the outdated divide between developed and developing countries, the role of business schools and companies in “killing business as usual,” and why business leaders must treat climate change as a structural transformation of their operating environment.
","author_name":"HEC Paris"}