We are delighted to host the first Political Economy of Climate and the Environment (PECE) mini-conference, to be held at the UCLA Luskin Center on August 30^th 2023. Our goals are to enrich the work of scholars who focus on the political economy of climate change and the environment, spark new collaborations, and catalyze new research projects. Unlike a traditional conference, the program has a mixed format that includes a panel of experts on the state of our field, paper presentations, poster sessions, feedback sessions for new research ideas, and lightning presentations by job market candidates.

Participants should plan to arrange and fund their own travel. Lunch, coffee and light refreshments will be served at the event, which will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. It will be followed by an informal reception from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

This event was made possible by generous contributions from the UCLA Political Science Department, the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the UC Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict, the Princeton University Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, the Stanford University King Center on Global Development, and Australia Catholic University. We hope this event will serve as a locus for the important conversations in our discipline about the political economy of climate and the environment and become a regular event alongside the annual APSA meeting.