Join the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment for the second in a series of online talks with authors on books exploring climate and environmental challenges and solutions.

Woods Affiliate Lily Hsueh is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Arizona State University and the author of Corporations at Climate Crossroads (MIT Press, 2025). Previously a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Lily Hsueh’s work has been featured in major news outlets, including the Financial Times, Fortune, and PBS NewsHour. She was a 2020–21 American Fellow of the American Association of University Women.

Climate action is facing political headwinds in many countries, and international cooperation is increasingly strained, Lily Hsueh’s new book sheds light on how the world’s largest corporations have taken action on climate change leading up to and after the Paris Agreement. Corporate responses to the climate challenge are an interplay of internal firm leadership, complementary business capabilities, and strategic and proactive engagement with regulatory processes and global governance.

Moderated by Woods faculty director Chris Field, the panel will begin with a presentation of the book by Lily Hsueh, followed by remarks and a roundtable discussion with Stanford scholars. 

For more information, contact: woods-events@stanford.edu

Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91464522006?pwd=ilvbnmcskh18ZCYVCBzhXSc7u8HNpP.1

Moderator and Panelists:

· Chris Field, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment

· Lily Hsueh, Affiliate Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Arizona State University

· Bruce Cain, Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in the School of Humanities & Science and Professor of Environmental Social Sciences

· Hélène Benveniste, Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Sciences

· Peter Freed, Research Fellow, Sustainable Finance Initiative, Precourt Institute for Energy (formerly Director of Energy Strategy at Meta)