{"title": "Sustainability and behavioural change: a discussion", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/sustainability"], "description": "A public panel discussion on what a sustainable future requires, weighing incremental against transformative pathways and how large-scale pro-environmental behavioural change can be fostered. It is hosted by the School of Public Policy and the Global School of Sustainability at the London School of Economics and Political Science, launches a new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, and forms part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026. A panel of policy and academic experts – Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath, Dr Kate Laffan, Baroness Parminter and Elizabeth J Z Robinson – is chaired by Professor Liam Delaney. 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