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Not just income: The enabling role of institutional confidence and social capital in household energy transitions in India

Research article

by Anmol Soni and Anomitro Chatterjee

on 16 March, 2023

The authors of this paper use household-level panel data to estimate drivers of clean cooking technology adoption and sustained fuel use in India Read more

Making Use of Moral and Social Capital: faith communities and climate finance

Online event

This online event will be a live discussion focused on climate finance and the role faith communities might play in... Read more

15 Sep '20

Build back better: the five key areas for a post-pandemic recovery

Press release on 2 July, 2020

The five key areas in which investment is essential to ensure a post-pandemic recovery that “builds back better”, have been... Read more

Strategy, investment and policy for a strong and sustainable recovery: An action plan

Policy publication

by Nicholas Stern, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero, Dimitri Zenghelis, James Rydge and Nick Robins

on 2 July, 2020

This briefing paper sets out the key areas where strong economic policies and institutions will be needed to foster investment for the post-COVID-19 recovery, building on discussions in the Royal Economic Society's webinar series chaired by Professor Lord Stern. Read more

Strong, sustainable and inclusive growth in a new era for China – Paper 2: Valuing and investing in physical, human, natural and social capital in the 14th Plan

Policy publication

by Nicholas Stern, Chunping Xie and Dimitri Zenghelis

on 22 April, 2020

This paper examines the role of investment in physical, human, natural and social capital in the new phase of growth China is entering. It provides the beginnings of an analytical framework for key elements of this new growth story, examining how a focus on the four types of capital can help deliver prosperity through China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and Belt and Road Initiative. Read more

Strong, sustainable and inclusive growth in a new era for China – Paper 1: Challenges and ways forward

Policy publication

by Cameron Hepburn, Nicholas Stern, Chunping Xie and Dimitri Zenghelis

on 22 April, 2020

The first of two papers that offer an outline of strategies and policies for an innovative, sustainable and low-carbon approach to China’s development, this paper offers an approach that could spell out a new development strategy for the country as the 21st century progresses, to inform decision-making for China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Read more

China’s 14th plan must prioritise low carbon growth to avoid putting decades of economic and social development at risk as its COVID-19 recovery gets underway

Press release on 22 April, 2020

China can use its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis to help lead the world in a resource-efficient and low-carbon revolution, if it avoids locking itself, and the Belt and Road Initiative countries (BRI), into the technologies and infrastructure of the past, finds two new reports published today (22 April). Read more

Social and natural capital is the wealth all around us and we should invest in it

Commentary

by Dimitri Zenghelis

on 27 March, 2019

Dimitri Zenghelis explores the fundamental concept of social capital, a key means of creating societal trust, and explains the necessity of investing in social capital for climate change and environmental policies to be successful Read more

Mind over matter – how expectations generate sustainable wealth

Commentary

by Dimitri Zenghelis

on 19 March, 2019

Dimitri Zenghelis writes on how our expectations of the future shape the world and how we generate wealth, and determine whether and how we meet our climate and sustainability targets. Read more