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Eric Kemp-Benedict

Equitable Transitions Program Director

SEI US,
eric.kemp-benedict@sei.org
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Eric Kemp-Benedict is the Equitable Transitions Program Director at SEI US and is based in Somerville, MA. Eric directed SEI Asia from February 2013 until February 2016 and has served in various SEI global leadership roles, starting in 2011 and continuing to the present.

Eric’s research focuses on the macroeconomics of a sustainability transition. Working within post-Keynesian, structuralist and classical traditions, but viewing the economy through an ecological economics lens, Eric addresses questions around long-run growth, decoupling, structural change, and economic development.

As a sustainability practitioner, from the time Eric joined SEI in 1997, he has contributed to studies on diverse topics of relevance to sustainability at national, regional, and global levels and has actively developed and applied tools and methods for participatory and study-specific sustainability analyses. Among his other contributions, he is a key contributor to the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), part of the global climate scenario framework that underpins a wide range of climate studies.

He has a B.S. in physics from the University of Texas in Austin and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Boston University, as well as an MAT in secondary physics education from Tufts University.

Read Eric’s economics papers on IDEAS and find his teaching module on Green Macroeconomics at Economics in Context.

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Publications by Eric Kemp-Benedict

What the history of “poverty thinking” means for future “development”
A water-resilient economy: hydro-macroeconomic and climate change analysis in Rwanda
The missing link between inequality and the environment in SDG 10
Agenda 2030 Compass
Investing in agricultural water, sustainably: recent trends in financing institutions

Perspectives by Eric Kemp-Benedict

Eric Kemp-Benedict: Let’s not look for a unified field theory of economics, OK?
What climate scenario are we living in?
Can a carbon tax replace the Green New Deal?
The Green New Deal is an antidote – not a reason – for panic
The realism of the Green New Deal

Featured stories with Eric Kemp-Benedict

Let’s talk about water: new directions for agricultural water investment
Five ideas to turn the Covid-19 recovery into a global green new deal
Cinco ideas para convertir la recuperación de COVID-19 en un nuevo acuerdo verde global
How finance works towards - or against - sustainable development
Sustainable production meets sustainable consumption

Projects and tools with Eric Kemp-Benedict

SEI Epidemic-Macroeconomic Model
Emissions Inequality Dashboard
NEMO: the Next Energy Modeling system for Optimization
SEI Initiative on Integrated Climate and Development Planning
Governing a fair transition to a fossil-free welfare society

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