The Bath Centre for Earth Systems Governance (BCESG) and Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change (ISCC) are delighted to be welcoming Dr Fikayo Akeredolu from the University of Oxford to deliver her seminar, "Why Money Isn't Enough: What Makes Climate Promises Achievable?"

Why Money Isn't Enough: What Makes Climate Promises Achievable?

This talk will explore the factors that make national climate commitments achievable in practice, and why finance alone is often not enough.

Drawing on research spanning Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the United States and the European Union, the session will examine how technological, institutional, economic, political and social conditions shape countries' ability to deliver on their climate ambitions.

Relevant to researchers across disciplines, the talk offers insights into how complex societal change can be enabled, governed and delivered in practice.

About the speaker

Dr Fikayo Akeredolu is a political economist and researcher at the University of Oxford, where she is affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and St Anne’s College as a Clayman JRF. She holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on the political economy of energy transitions, climate finance, and environmental governance, with particular attention to state capacity, political institutions, and distributive justice in the Global South. Her work examines how political and institutional arrangements shape the feasibility, implementation, and equity of climate policies, drawing particularly on empirical research in Nigeria.

All are welcome, and please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues and students who may be interested.