About the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Hosted jointly by the University of Leeds| and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)|, and chaired by Nicholas Stern, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) brings together some of the world's leading researchers on climate change economics and policy, from many different disciplines.

CCCEP was established in 2008, and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council| and Munich Re|.

Mission

We advance public and private action on climate change through rigorous, innovative research.

Climate change and its potential impacts are increasingly accepted, but economic, social and political systems have been slow to respond.

There is a clear and urgent need to speed up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to unavoidable climate change - and our mission is to respond to this need.

Policy objectives

In pursuit of its mission, the Centre has two main policy objectives:

Advance climate-change policy and increase the capacity of public and private decision-makers to respond to one of the most critical challenges facing the world today; and

Support a ‘new global deal' on climate change, both through a formal state agreement and through a wider set of actions worldwide, by improving both the evidence base and the tools and implementation strategies available to decision-makers.

Research objectives

Rigorous and relevant research will be crucial in meeting the Centre's policy objectives. The Centre's research objectives are:

Undertake an ambitious, innovative and interdisciplinary programme of research, firmly grounded in theory but with practical applications, linking science and social science and combining quantitative and qualitative approaches; and

Conduct research of the highest academic standard, subjecting it to internal and external review through seminars, briefings and publication.

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

Governance

Advice about the general strategy of the Centre is provided by the Steering Committee|. The Management Group|, led by the Directors at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Leeds, will ensure the achievement of the Centre's mission and its policy and research objectives.

The activities of the Centre will complement the work of LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|, and the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI)| at the University of Leeds.