This article reports that the US is attempting to make China pay towards ‘loss and damage’ costs by classing the... Read more
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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
According to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency there are 10.3 million renewable energy jobs globally –... Read more
Analysis by researcher Lutz Sager puts a ‘carbon dioxide cost’ on household consumption by adding up the emissions that can be attributed to the goods, services and energy that households in the United States buy in a year and compares households with different incomes. Sager’s results show that the 10% of households with the highest income had an average annual carbon footprint of 59.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide per household in 2009 – more than three times as much as the 10% of households with the lowest income. Read more
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