Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Welcome to the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.

Our mission is to advance public and private action on climate change through rigorous, innovative research.

Climate change is happening, and it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that human activities are the main cause. The consequences of climate change could be enormous if we carry on with ‘business as usual.’ But it is not yet clear how our economic, social and political systems can respond to the challenge:

• What action should we take to create low-carbon economies?
• What strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will be effective, efficient and fair?
• How much should we invest, and when, on measures to reduce our vulnerability and exposure to climate change?
• Who should bear the costs, and who will enjoy the benefits?

Hosted jointly by the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and chaired by Nicholas Stern, the Centre brings together some of the world’s leading researchers on climate change economics and policy, from many different disciplines. We make available a range of high quality research, which has a practical application.

The Centre has five inter-linked research programmes:

1. Developing climate science and economics
2. Climate change governance for a new global deal
3. Adaptation to climate change and human development
4. Governments, markets and climate change mitigation
5. The Munich Re Programme: Evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector.

Our role is to provide the evidence, tools and strategies that decision-makers can use, to tackle climate change effectively.

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