All pages with keywords: climate change
The cost of adapting to climate change: evidence from the US residential sector
Using household-level data from the American Housing Survey, this paper assesses the cost of adapting housing to temperature increases. The authors account for both energy use adjustments and capital adjustments through investments in weatherization and heating and cooling equipment. read more »
Grantham Workshop | Declan Conway ‘Climate change and water security’
Declan Conway, a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, will be the speaker for this seminar. This seminar … read more »
Climate change, development, poverty and economics
Putting the SDGs and Paris Agreement together, the agreements of 2015 have given us, for the first time, a global agenda for sustainable development applying to all countries. This paper sets out the implications of this agenda, and climate change in particular, for development economics and development policy. read more »
RSS | Olivier Deschenes ‘Weather, climate change, and death in India’
Olivier Deschenes, Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be the speaker at this event. He will present his upcoming paper ‘Weather, Climate … read more »
CISPS | Climate change, inequality and social policy
The first of this new seminar series will feature Prof. Ian Gough, Visiting Professor at CASE and Associate at Grantham. 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.
Climate Shock: It’s Not Over ’til the Fat Tail Zings
Grantham Research Institute public lecture Gernot Wagner, lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at the Columbia School of 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 »
Maria Dickinson – Extinction Risk and Climate Change
Part of the LSE-Imperial Grantham PhD Seminar Series in the Michaelmas term. Speaker: Maria Dickinson Link to publication
Professor Masako Ikefuji – Climate Change, Economic Growth, and Health
Seminar on paper that studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylised world with four heterogeneous regions, labelled ‘West’ (cold and rich), ‘China’ (cold and poor), … read more »
