Past events
Grantham Seminar | Nature and wealth: overcoming environmental scarcity and inequality
Grantham seminar introduced and chaired by Prof. Samuel Fankhauser, Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute Prof. Edward B. Barbier, John S. Bugas Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, University … read more »
Grantham Seminar | How a minimum carbon price commitment might help to internalize the global warming externality
Grantham Seminar introduced and chaired by Prof. Simon Dietz, Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute Prof. Martin L. Weitzman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will be the speaker for … read more »
Grantham Seminar | The politics of green transformations in the global south: what role is there for a green state?
Grantham Seminar introduced and chaired by Dr. Robert Falkner This seminar starts from the puzzling observation that two countries from the global South (Costa Rica and Vietnam) with different political systems … read more »
Blue finance: integrating the ocean into climate policy
The Institute of Global Affairs and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment will jointly host a lunchtime seminar by IGA Visiting Fellow Torsten Thiele on the new … read more »
Grantham seminar | Matthew Adler ‘Prioritarianism and climate change’
Grantham seminar introduced and chaired by Antony Millner, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute Prof. Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, … read more »
Grantham Seminar | Natural assets: surfing a wave of economic growth
Grantham seminar introduced and chaired by Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Research Officer at the Grantham Research Institute Samuel Wills, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at Oxford University, will present his new paper ‘Natural Assets: … read more »
Grantham seminar | Prof. John A. Mathews: “Greening of industry: China’s green development model as driver”
Grantham seminar introduced and chaired by Dimitri Zenghelis, Co-Head of Climate Policy at the Grantham Research Institute Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising hundreds … read more »
Grantham Seminar | The Nordic low-carbon energy transition: insights for the United Kingdom
The five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have aggressive climate and energy policies in place and have already emerged to be leaders in renewable energy. Denmark … read more »
Grantham Seminar | Fossil energy in economic growth: A study of the energy direction of technical change, 1950-2012
The imperative to mitigate climate change challenges national economies to grow productivity while reducing fossil energy consumption. Yet no consensus has been reached in how far recent economic history proves … read more »
Grantham Seminar | Climate Change Around the World
Per Krusell, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics, will be the speaker for this seminar. In this … read more »
