Past events
Green Growth: Conference
Welcome – Nicholas Stern (Chair of Grantham Research Institute, LSE) and Howard Bamsey (Director General, Global Green Growth Institute) Papers presented by: Justin Yifu Lin and Jintao Xu (Peking University) … read more »
Dr James Hansen – Itinerant Farming to White House Arrests: a scientist’s view of the climate crisis
The unfolding human-made climate crisis seems almost surrealistic from a scientific perspective. As knowledge of a climate emergency improves, policies change in ways that exacerbate rather than mitigate the situation. … read more »
Dr Robert Falkner – International relations and global action on climate change
In this lecture, Dr Robert Falkner explores the challenges of international action on climate change from the perspective of politics and international relations. This talk includes an introduction to international … read more »
Professor Nicholas Stern – Climate change and risk
Part 1 In part one of this lecture, Professor Stern outlines the evidence on the science and risks of climate change. He provides an introduction to the science of climate … read more »
Dr Richard Sandor – Good Derivatives: a story of financial and environmental innovation
Grantham Research Institute and Department of Management public lecture Dr Richard Sandor gave a first-hand account of his experiences as an inventor of new markets – in interest rates, air … read more »
Professor David Vogel – Precautionary Politics: explaining the shift in global regulatory leadership from the United States to Europe
Hosted by LSE’s Department of International Relations and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Since 1990, the United States and the European Union have traded places. … read more »
Professor Martin Weitzman – An Economist Tries to Grapple with Catastrophic Climate Change
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment public lecture Catastrophic climate-change damages are characterised by deep structural uncertainties in the science, combined with severe constraints on the ability … read more »
Senator Lindsey O. Graham – US Energy and Climate Change Policy
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment public lecture. Speaker: Senator Lindsey O. Graham Chair: Dr Robert Falkner, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at LSE More information: LSE … read more »
Nicholas Stern – The Low-Carbon Industrial Revolution
Part of LSE Works, a new series of public lectures, sponsored by SAGE publications, that will showcase some of the latest research by LSE’s Research Centres. Nicholas Stern provided an … read more »
Margaret Atwood & Sir Brian Hoskins – A Problem Shared: securing a future for our planet
This is event is jointly hosted by the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. Speakers: Margaret Atwood, novelist, and Sir Brian Hoskins, Director of the Grantham Institute on … read more »
