This paper explores how changes in air quality in the US have affected ethnic disparities in housing wealth, finding that air quality improvement positively affects house prices for White homeowners much more than for Black homeowners - with a ‘capitalization rate’ that is 63% higher. Read more
This article reports on how the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank have differed in their responses to tackling... Read more
The U.S. coal industry is in the midst of a transition. Changes in regulation and technological innovation from other fossils... Read more
This article reports that the US is attempting to make China pay towards ‘loss and damage’ costs by classing the... Read more
Peer-to-peer solar offers households who cannot have solar panels fixed to their own homes to access solar energy from their neighbours. But because this is an invisible form of pro-environmental behaviour, the rewards in the form of social approval are lower. This working paper finds that the ability to share reports of green behaviour online made people more likely to show interest in the scheme. Read more
The authors of this paper present an alternative approach to determining the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) that takes as given the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Biden administration’s commitment to the US reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. Read more
Commenting on President Biden’s executive action to rejoin the Paris Agreement today, Lord Stern of Brentford, Chair of the Grantham... Read more
Commenting on the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute... Read more
On 6 July, 135 members of the climate change research community in the UK wrote to the Prime Minister, Theresa... Read more
More than 130 of the United Kingdom’s climate change researchers have urged the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, to challenge... Read more
