All pages with keywords: climate risks
Climate change mitigation as catastrophic risk management
Since Nicholas Stern published his influential ‘Review on the Economics of Climate Change’ for the British government in 2006, economists have become increasingly interested in how the value of climate policy, especially the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at the global level, depends on risk and uncertainty. New lines of research make the case that mitigating climate change is above all an exercise in catastrophic risk management. read more »
Stephane Zuber – Discounting, Risk and Inequality: a general approach
Speaker: Stephane Zuber, Centre Universitaire des Saints-Pères, Paris read more »
Jennifer Helgeson – New Approaches to Risk Mitigation/Adaptation: agriculture, risk, microinsurance, and the farmer
Part of the LSE-Imperial Grantham PhD seminar series (Michaelmas term) Speaker: Jennifer Helgeson
Risk Management and Climate Change
event was hosted by the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute. A series of presentations, chaired by Nick Silver, (Director, Callund Consulting and … read more »
Private-sector adaptation to climate risk
Reference Surminski, S. October 2013. Private-sector adaptation to climate risk. Nature Climate Change, v.3, pp.943-945.
Climate change and extreme weather events in developing countries. Future Risk: climate change and energy security – global challenges and implications
Chartered Insurance Institute, Centenary Future Risk Series: Report 3. Chartered Insurance Institute, London, UK. – Link to publisher
An Independent National Adaptation Programme for England
An Independent National Adaptation Programme for England read more »
Climate confusion
‘A responsible and effective approach to managing the risks of climate change requires action in advance’ Sir, Matt Ridley’s rather silly attack on the Met Office (“The forecast said warm. … read more »
Emerging approaches to climate risk management. Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources
Description The quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on water availability and water resources management requires knowledge of climate, hydro(geo)logical and water resources models, and particularly the relationships … read more »
