economics of climate change

The case for action on climate change with urgency and at scale rests on the immense magnitude of climate risk,... Read more

Stainforth, David A.  and Calel, Raphael (2021) The economics of global climate variability. US CLIVAR Variations, 20 (1). pp.... Read more

In this interview for Reuters Nicholas Stern explains how the costs of inaction on climate change have gone up whilst... Read more

15 years on from the Stern Review, here Nicholas Stern argues that the COVID-19 and climate crises, and the weaknesses that produced them, should be tackled together and that the response must be a new sustainable, resilient and inclusive approach to growth and development. Read more

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is to be awarded the Bernhard Harms Prize on Saturday 4 September 2021. The award is in recognition of his pioneering work on the economic costs of climate change. Read more

Stronger efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases should be undertaken if global warming of more than 1.5 Celsius degrees... Read more

This paper studies the economic effects of long-term and gradual climate change, over a period of 250 years, when people have time to adapt. Read more

The economic case for low-carbon growth is even stronger than when the Stern Review was published in 2006, according to a new paper by Nicholas Stern. Read more