Past events
Grantham seminar | Export coal in a changing economic climate: the economics and politics of a moratorium on new coal mines
Richard Denniss, Chief Economist at The Australian Institute, presents this seminar which focuses on the scope of planned coal mine expansions in Australia and Indonesia and goes on to explore the case for a moratorium on new coal mines. read more »
Seminar | Climate change adaptation and urbanization: A review of recent empirical findings
Matthew Kahn, a Professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, will be the speaker for this seminar. Further details will appear shortly.
Grantham Seminar – “Integrated Assessment of Climate Change under Uncertainty”
Christian Traeger, Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, will be the speaker for this seminar. Abstract from Christian’s paper: “Analytic Integrated Assessment and Uncertainty” … read more »
Grantham Seminar – Promoting energy efficiency in the housing sector: Economic analysis of Spain’s experience
The Grantham Research Institute invites you to attend our upcoming Seminar featuring Ibon Galarraga, Deputy Director and Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3). Ibon will be … read more »
Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
Professor W. Walker Hanlon considers evidence that industrial pollution had an important effect on mortality in the second half of the 19th century. read more »
Roger Fouquet – Long Run Trends in Energy and Climate Change
Roger Fouquet’s research focuses on historical energy transitions and their role in generating new phases of economic growth and development as part of the green growth initiative. He is author … read more »
Sander Van-Der-Linden – Achieving Behavioural Change: Towards a New Framework for Communicating Information About Climate Change
It is widely known that, despite increasing scientific consensus on the existence of anthropogenic climate change, people around the world still remain reluctant to change their behaviour. In fact, while … read more »
Gianni Ruta – Agency problems in climate change adaptation financing
Part of the Grantham PhD seminar series Economic impacts caused by weather-related extreme events and gradual climate change will hurt developing country economies the most. International financial transfers are increasingly … read more »
Matthew E Khan – How Will European Cities Adapt to Climate Change?
Joint Grantham Research Institute and SERC seminar As world greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we have strong individual and collective incentives to adapt to the “known unknown” challenges that … read more »
Professor Warwick J. McKibbin – A Climate Strategy Beyond 2012: what have we learnt from monetary policy?
Grantham Research Institute seminar Speaker: Professor Warwick J. McKibbin, Professor and Director of the ANU Research School of Economics and Professor in the ANU College of Business and Economics and … read more »
