Jonathan Boston, Architesh Panda and Swenja Surminski suggest a series of principles to guide pre-emptive, fair and effective funding systems for planned relocation in response to slow-onset climate change impacts. Read more
News & commentaries
This section features media releases and announcements from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. It also features commentaries written by our staff and research students and external experts. In addition we feature and provide links to media coverage for the Institute and its staff.
BBC Newsnight piece considers the impact of COVID-19 on efforts to tackle climate and air pollution. Starts at 22:37. 14... Read more
Although current risk reduction attention is on COVID-19, climate change-related hazards such as flooding continue to have impacts around the world. This commentary evaluates new announcements on flood protection for England and reports on work by the Grantham Research Institute and partners on the Suffolk coast. Read more
An Anglo-American group of top climate economics and policy experts have urged the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases,... Read more
Bob Ward reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, 'False Alarm', finding the misuse of outdated, concocted and misinterpreted numbers on the costs of climate action and concluding that the book’s central claim that the ‘optimal’ level of global warming by 2100 would be 3.75˚C was completely out-of-date before it was even published. Read more
Bob Ward discusses two new books written by prominent ‘lukewarmers’: False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the... Read more
Phasing out coal requires expanding the notion of a ‘just transition’ and a roadmap that specifies the sequence of coal... Read more
Brazil ended 2019 with virtually the same level of GDP that it had in 2012 and now the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exert further downward pressure. Leveraging green finance may be the best way to tap more resources from domestic and foreign institutional investors now that sustainable investment is a growing necessity. In fact, the time is ripe for a green decade, argues Mario Mesquita in this post for the Sustainable Finance Leadership series. Read more
Alexandra Pinzon, Nick Robins and Gabriel Thoumi explore how investors in sovereign bonds can take action to confront the risks of deforestation, with a focus on Brazil. Read more
Just as unbridled climate change will do serious damage to the economy and its workers, so too will failure to improve human-capital management and safeguard workers’ wellbeing. That is why both climate action and social protections must be embedded in COVID-19 recovery strategies, argue Naïm Abou-Jaoudé and Nick Robins. Read more
