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Discounting and the representative median agent
Social discount rates (SDRs) are used in cost–benefit analysis to determine the present value of future costs and benefits: for example, to determine how much today’s society should invest in … read more »
What drives social contagion in the adoption of solar photovoltaic technology?
This research finds that households, businesses and farms are more likely to install solar panels if others in their neighbourhood have already done so, and in particular if existing installations … read more »
Ambiguity aversion under maximum-likelihood updating
Maximum-likelihood updating (MLU) is a well-known approach for extending static ambiguity sensitive preferences to dynamic set-ups. This paper develops an example in which MLU induces an ambiguity averse maxmin … read more »
Estimating the economic impact of the permafrost carbon feedback
The permafrost carbon feedback (PCF) is not currently taken into account in economic assessments of climate change, yet it could have important implications for the social cost of carbon (SCC) … read more »
‘Climate Change Laws of the World’ technical presentation of the database, and trends in climate legislation
These slides were presented during the ‘Webinar | Climate Change Laws of the World – global trends in legislation and litigation’ which was held on 5 June 2017. A video … read more »
China’s leadership on sustainable infrastructure: lessons for the world
China is taking an active leadership role in a new global agenda that has sustainable infrastructure at its heart – an agenda that is starting to address the … read more »
Territorial approach to climate change in Senegal: agro-silvopastoral case study in the Ferlo region (In French)
Governance of climate change at the territorial level is critical if decision makers are to gain awareness of the realities that communities affected by the impacts of climate change face, … read more »
Integrated territorial approach to climate change in Senegal: case study of an integrated territorial climate plan for the Dakar region (In French)
One of the biggest challenges the world faces today is climate change. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa remain among the most vulnerable to its negative effects, mainly because the economic activities … read more »
The climate impact of quantitative easing
Note that an 8-page policy brief for decision-makers that draws on the full 36-page paper is available. Headline issue Both climate change and the low-carbon transition are likely to have … read more »
Science for disaster risk management 2017: knowing better and losing less
This report is the result of the multi-sectorial and multi-disciplinary networking process and represents the combined effort of more than two hundred, mostly European, experts. It will support the integration … read more »
High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate
Commenting on the publication today (Monday 24 July) of a paper on ‘High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate’ in the journal ‘Nature Communications’, Bob Ward, policy … read more »
Lord Stern comments on new Centre for Global Disaster Protection
Commenting on the announcement today (20 July 2017), by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, of further details about the new Centre for Global Disaster Protection, Professor Lord Nicholas … read more »
California’s leadership on climate change
Later today, California’s Senate will vote on new laws to tackle climate change, including an extension to its successful cap-and-trade programme until 2030. It is expected to be a close … read more »
Good chance Trump won’t end up withdrawing from Paris
CNBC, 7 July 2017
Nicholas Stern speaks at pre-G20 event in Hamburg
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment spoke at the F20 event in Hamburg on 4th July 2017. The focus of … read more »
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