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Outcome of COP22 caps a year of progress
Governments have made important progress towards implementation of the Paris Agreement at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, otherwise … read more »
Nicholas Stern comments on outcome of COP22
Commenting on the outcome of the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, Professor Lord Stern … read more »
New study finds six G20 countries are failing to take action in line with their Paris Agreement pledges
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States have not been undertaking sufficient domestic efforts to match their pledged nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement on climate … read more »
What energy and climate change policies can we expect from President Trump?
The election on 8 November of Donald Trump as President of the United States has created great uncertainty about future American policies on energy and climate change. President-Elect Trump has … read more »
This is humankind’s ‘great urbanisation’. We must do it right, or the planet will pay
The world will never again build cities as rapidly as it does this century. If we are serious about limiting global warming, tackling air pollution and promoting innovative, resource-efficient growth, there is a narrow window of opportunity read more »
Trumping progress or Clinton’s clean opportunity – The future of US climate policy after the elections
In many respects the United States presidential election of 2016 could be decisive for the US, and the world, not least for the direction of climate policy. While many of … read more »
Speech – ‘The Stern Review +10: new opportunities for growth and development’
Speech given by Professor Lord Stern of Brentford at The Royal Society on 28th October 2016 ‘The Criticality of the Next 10 Years: Delivering the Global Agenda and Building Infrastructure … read more »
World must deliver urgently on global agenda for climate and sustainability, says Nicholas Stern 10 years on from his landmark report
The world must deliver urgently and strongly on the global agenda for climate and sustainability over the next 10 years, and avoid the huge risks resulting from delay, Nicholas Stern … read more »
How to reverse the dangerous decline in low-carbon innovation
The Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to less than 2°C at the end of the 21st century demands that we sharply reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, reaching near … read more »
False allegations by climate change ‘sceptic’
The UK’s most prominent climate change ‘sceptic’ has falsely alleged that an international group of researchers conspired to suppress their results. In the Annual Lecture for the Global Warming Policy … read more »
