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

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.

The Centre has five interlinked research programmes:

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