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Sustainable growth in the UK: Seizing opportunities from technological change and the transition to a low-carbon economy

Policy publication

by James Rydge, Ralf Martin, Anna Valero, Samuela Bassi, Arlan Brucal, Maria Carvalho, Tobias Kruse, Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Misato Sato, Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis

on 3 December, 2018

This special report for the LSE Growth Commission shows why it is sensible for environmental sustainability to be at the heart of the UK’s growth strategy and how this can be achieved, setting out recommendations for government across the areas of innovation, infrastructure, skills and cities. Read more

Bold climate action could deliver US$26 trillion in economic benefits through to 2030 says new report backed by Lord Stern

Announcements

by Nicholas Stern

on 5 September, 2018

A new report released today (5 September 2018) by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate finds that we... Read more

Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

Policy publication

by Joana Setzer

on 31 May, 2018

The Urban Climate Change Research Network’s Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a... Read more

Seminar | Jeroen van der Heijden ‘Forget urban climate leaders: Why urban climate governance urgently needs to be tailored to laggards, and how it can be done’

Seminars

Across the globe, governments, firms, non-profit organisations, and citizens have developed and implemented voluntary programs for sustainable building and city... Read more

26 May '17

Public lecture | Growth and Sustainability: 10 years on from the Stern Review

Public Lectures

Nicholas Stern considers what we know about innovation, investment, cities and the global agenda, a decade after publication of The Stern Review. Read more

27 Oct '16

Climate change, heat stress and labour productivity: A cost methodology for city economies

Working paper

by Hélia Costa, Graham Floater, Hans Hooyberghs, Stijn Verbeke and Koen De Ridder

on 29 July, 2016

Cities are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. Despite this, no comprehensive methodology has been developed to assess the costs of... Read more

RSS | Mark Pelling ‘Megacity transitions in the adaptation-development nexus’

Research Seminar Series

Mark Pelling, Professor of Geography at King’s College London, will be the speaker at this event. Abstract Large and megacities... Read more

22 Feb '17

The Stern Review +10: new opportunities for growth and development

Conferences

This meeting will take stock of the extraordinary changes taking place in the global economy and seek to guide the research and policy that will deliver the global agenda created by the Paris Agreement (December 2015) and Sustainable Development Goals (September 2015). Read more

28 Oct '16

Push to decarbonize cities after Paris talks

Research article

by Matthew Agarwala

on 9 December, 2015

As the United Nations climate summit in Paris draws to a close, we suggest that cities should be a focus... Read more

Seminar | Climate change adaptation and urbanization: A review of recent empirical findings

Seminars

Matthew Kahn, a Professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, will be the speaker for this seminar. Read more

29 May '15