Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment public lecture
Date: Tuesday 1 December 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Stern
Chair: Howard Davies
Nick Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE and chairman of LSE's new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He also directs the Asia Research Centre and the India Observatory at LSE. He was Chief Economist of the World Bank (2000-2003), then Head of the UK Government Economic Service and led a Review of the Economics of Climate Change which was published in October 2006. In October 2007 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party political peer.
The press release for the launch of Lord Stern's reports at today's lecture ahead of a major speech at the Copenhagen meeting on 'Deciding our future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change?' (pdf) and 'Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: the science and economics of future paths for global annual emissions' (pdf) can be found at LSE news.
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Download Deciding our Future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change? (pdf)
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