{"id":1824,"date":"2026-01-12T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=1824"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:22:50","slug":"se-seminar-series-christina-caron","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/event\/se-seminar-series-christina-caron\/","title":{"rendered":"SE Seminar Series: Christina Caron"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<h3 id=\"title-the-dog-that-didnt-bark-the-role-of-natural-capital-in-explaining-the-rise-and-fall-of-global-productivity\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Title: The dog that didn\u2019t bark: The role of natural capital in explaining the rise and fall of global productivity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This seminar will explore the role of natural capital in long-term economic and productivity growth, offering a new perspective on why productivity growth has declined globally in recent decades. The presentation will examine how factors such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and resource depletion have shifted natural capital from a historical productivity booster to a modern-day productivity drag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker: Christina Caron<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christina Caron is an economist and executive whose career has included roles in the federal public service, the offices of two Canadian Prime Ministers, the Economic Council of Canada, and the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. Her current work focuses on the role of natural capital in economic growth and the economic impacts of environmental damage.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-1824","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-01-22 12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-01-22 13:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"NI","cu_event_meeting_room":"1020","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Christine May","cu_event_email":"christine.may@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1824\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}