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      • Briefing notes
      • 2011
        • The case for carbon pricing
        • Climate change policy in the United Kingdom
        • Building effective and sustainable risk transfer initiatives in low- and middle-income economies: what can we learn from existing insurance schemes?
    • Policy papers
      • 2011
  • Working papers
    • Abstracts
      • 10-19
        • High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change
        • Climate change mitigation policy: an overview of opportunities and challenges
        • Abstract of Working Paper 19
        • Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning
        • The Carbon Market in 2020: volumes, prices and gains from trade
        • Properly designed emissions trading schemes do work!
        • What drives the international transfer of climate change mitigation technologies? Empirical evidence from patent data
        • Why is the USA so energy intensive? Evidence from US multinationals in the UK
        • Environmental policy and the economic downturn
      • 1-9
        • Carbon markets in space and time
        • Economic policy when models disagree
        • Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
        • The impacts of the Climate Change Levy on business: evidence from microdata
        • The costs of adaptation
        • How do domestic attributes affect international spillovers of CO2-efficiency?
        • Economic crises, land use vulnerabilities, climate variability, food security and population declines: will history repeat itself or will our society adapt to climate change?
        • The economics of the CDM levy: revenue potential, tax incidence and distortionary effects
        • The Clean Development Mechanism: too flexible to produce sustainable development benefits?
      • 20-29
        • On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis
        • Public-private partnerships for storm risk management in the Cayman Islands
        • Does adaptation to climate change provide food security? A micro-perspective from Ethiopia
        • Europe in a climate of risk: three paradigms at play
        • Ecological modernisation and the governance of carbon: a critical analysis
        • Probabilistic regional and seasonal predictions of twenty-first century temperature and precipitation
        • Ambiguity and climate policy
      • 30-39
        • Noodles at any cost: food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China
        • A coevolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy
        • Anticipating vulnerability to climate change in dryland pastoral systems: using dynamic systems models for the Kalahari
        • Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? Assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana
        • Environmental economics and modeling marketable permits
        • Cap-and-trade properties under different hybrid scheme designs
        • Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration
        • Of models and meanings: cultural resilience in socio-ecological systems
        • Envisioning adaptive strategies to change: participatory scenarios for agro-pastoral semi-arid systems in Nicaragua
        • New rules, new politics, same actors: explaining policy change in the EU ETS
      • 40-49
        • A trend analysis of normalized insured damage from natural disasters
        • Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: a global analysis
        • Growth dynamics of energy technologies: using hstorical patterns to validate low-carbon scenarios
        • A comparison of reduced-form permit price models and their empirical performances
        • Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change
        • The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
        • Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations
        • Spending adaptation money wisely
        • Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it
        • Co-impacts of energy-related climate change mitigation in Africa's least developed countries: the evidence base and research needs
      • 50-59
        • Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?
        • Climate change: the ultimate 'tragedy of the commons'?
        • Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
        • Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data
        • Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation? Evidence from the wind industry
        • Integrated EUA and CER price modeling and application for spread option pricing
        • Emerging markets and climate change: Mexican standoff or low-carbon race?
        • Pollution permits, strategic trading and dynamic technology adoption
        • Stocks and shocks: a clarification in the debate over price vs. quantity controls for greenhouse gases
        • Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without nonregulated companies
      • 60-69
        • Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries
        • A representation result for choice under conscious awareness
        • Climate change and carbon markets: a panoramic history
        • Insuring climate catastrophes in Florida: an analysis of insurance pricing and capacity under various scenarios of climate change and adaptation measures
        • Market-based instruments and technology choices: a synthesis
        • Perverse incentives under the CDM: a comment
        • The influence of academics as insider nongovernmental actors in the Post-Kyoto Protocol climate Change Negotiations: a matter of timing, network and policy entrepreneurial capabilities
        • Scientific uncertainty: a user's guide
        • Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments
        • The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis
      • 70-79
        • Asymmetry, optimal transfers and international environmental agreements
        • African farmers' perceptions of erratic rainfall
        • Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
        • Forecasting non-life insurance demand in the BRICS economies: a preliminary evaluation of the impacts of income and climate change
        • What role for 'long-term' insurance in adaptation? An analysis of the prospects for and pricing of multi-year insurance contracts
        • A preliminary assessment of the impact of climate change on non-life insurance demand in the BRICS economies
        • Public pressure versus lobbying – how do Environmental NGOs matter most in climate negotiations?
        • Government discounting controversies: changing prices, opportunity costs and systematic risk
        • Government discounting controversies: the valuation of social time preference
        • Unawareness with 'possible' possible worlds
      • 80-89
        • Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, dryland livelihoods and ecosystem service provision
        • ‘Vulnerability hotspots’: integrating socioeconomic and hydrological models to identify where cereal production may decline due to climate change induced drought
        • Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation?
        • Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty
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    • 2008
  • Give the rainforests our word and bond
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    • Climate science and economics
      • Project 1a
      • Project 1b
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    • Climate change governance
      • Climate governance beyond the state?
      • Project 2a
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      • Project 2c
      • Project 2d
    • Adaptation to climate change
      • Project 3a
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      • Project 3d
    • Climate change mitigation
      • Project 4a
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    • The Munich Re programme
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        • 2011
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• Events
  • Abstract of 'Zero Carbon Britain' lecture
  • Biography of Paul Allen
  • Biography of Keith Allott
  • Past events
    • 2012
      • January
        • Nudge or Shove - can non-state actors really drive corporate action on climate change?
        • Low Carbon Leeds City Region: how we can save £1 billion a year on energy
    • 2011
      • Jan
        • Climate Change, Justice, and Future Generations
        • Developing policy regimes for combating climate change
        • Abstract of 'Climate Change, Justice, and Future Generations' seminar
        • Biography of Joerg Tremmel
      • Feb
        • Beyond Money: willingness to pay for GHG emissions reductions
        • Panel discussion: 'After Cancun: The prospects for international climate diplomacy'
        • 'The Prisoners' Dilemma, Tragedy of the Commons, Nash Equilibrium, Cows, and Climate Change'
        • Biography of Rodrigo Lozano
        • Netimpact lecture: Business Perspectives on the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
        • Workshop: UK Green Economy Roadmap
      • March
        • Biography of Lucie Middlemiss
        • Practices and energy use in fuel poor social housing in the UK: reflections on a pilot study
        • Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: are the carbon markets up to the job?
        • Climate Mitigation: sustainable preferences and cumulative carbon
        • The Low-Carbon Industrial Revolution
        • Centre director clicks with his audience on the transition to low carbon business
      • May
        • Climate Finance in Africa: from aid to trade
        • Justice and vulnerability to climate change
        • Nature Climate Change: how to get published
        • Summary Note Risk Perception Workshop
        • Biography of Dr Monica Contestabile
        • Abstract of 'Justice and vulnerability to climate change' lecture
        • Biography of John O'Neill
      • July
        • Expert workshop on consumption-based accounting – implications for policy
      • October
        • Compensating for Climate Mitigation: can social policies ameliorate the regressive effects?
      • November
        • Biography of Steven Sorrell
        • Climate Change and Society
        • Decarbonising Britain
        • Biography of John Urry
        • Carbon Markets Regulation: the case for a CO2 Central Bank
        • Chasing Our Tails? Rebound effects from improved energy efficiency
      • December
        • Pathways to a Low-Carbon Economy: the business response to climate change
        • Public Goods Agreements with Other Regarding Preferences
    • 2010
      • Symposium report on 'The study of economic loss from natural disasters'
      • The study of economic loss from natural disasters
      • Quantification and Interpretation of Trends in Economic and Insured Nat Cat Losses
      • How can Climate Change Science and Economics Better Support the Insurance Industry?
      • Seminar: 'From Copenhagen to Legoland?'
      • The Evolution of Adaptation in Science and Global Policy: autumn lecture
      • Biography of Robert Falkner
      • Biography of Steven Schilizzi
      • Climate Change Adaption Modelling and Scenario Analysis
      • Social equity, context-dependence and analytical rigour: can they be brought together for better policy design?
      • Barriers to Sustainable Energy Management
      • Cancun and Food Security
      • Biography of David Howlett
      • Biography of Tim Foxon
      • Biographies of Dougill, Quinn and Simelton
      • Modelling Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation with an Application to Mexico
      • Biography of Saleemul Huq
      • Transition Pathways for a Low-Carbon Electricity System in the UK
      • Robust Decisions Under Uncertainty: Examples of info-gap analysis in mitigation policy and flood risk management
      • Biography of Jim W Hall
      • Europe in the New Energy World Order
      • Closing the Loop
      • Beyond Copenhagen
      • Climate Models; current science and common sense
      • Climate Risk and the City
      • Governing clean development
      • Incentivising private investment in carbon abatement
      • Munich Re seminar on improving IPCC's uncertainty management
      • Responding to climate change: going beyond dangerous
      • Terrestrial Carbon and Climate Change
      • The Cost of Mitigating Climate Change
      • The flexibility premium in market-based instruments
      • Towards a low-carbon economy?
      • Voluntary corporate climate change accounting, reporting and benchmarking
      • Weather and Death in India
      • LeedsEvents
        • Responding to Climate Change: going beyond dangerous'
        • Abstract
        • Abstract
        • Seminar, 1 December 2009: Alan Knight, OBE
        • Seminar, 2 February 2010: Craig Mackenzie
        • Seminar, 2 March 2010: Peter Newell
      • LSESeminarSeries
        • Biography
        • Abstract
        • Abstract
        • Professor Jim Hall
        • Robust decisions under uncertainty: examples of info-gap analysis in mitigation policy and flood risk management
        • Seminar Series
      • Conference
        • Video of Michael Jacobs' keynote address
      • Symposium
        • PhD Symposium
    • 2009
      • At war with the weather
      • Countdown to Copenhagen debate
      • Earth system governance
      • LeedsEvents2009
        • Debate: Countdown to Copenhagen
        • Seminar, 29 September 2009: Professor Frank Biermann
      • MunichReEvents2009
        • Munich Re Programme: Symposium 1
        • Munich Re Symposium II
      • Inaugural Business Green seminar
      • Launch of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
      • Munich Re Programme Symposium 1
      • Shops, lifestyle and the planet
      • Symposium on climate change
• News and media
  • Media articles
    • 2011
    • 2010
  • Media releases
    • 2011
      • Nicholas Stern welcomes outcome of climate change summit in Durban, South Africa
      • Governments risk losing public support for carbon taxes and emissions trading without better communication
      • Rich countries can and should provide US$100 billion a year to support action on climate change in developing countries
      • UK climate change policies must be strengthened to meet targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
      • UK Government policies on green growth must be based on sound economics, says Nicholas Stern
      • Rich countries should invest more to reduce impacts of extreme weather in developing world
      • MR
      • UK carbon tax would do nothing to reduce European-wide greenhouse gas emissions
      • Green Government policies would boost economic recovery by encouraging investment of huge private surpluses
    • 2010
    • 2009
    • 2009
      • Green Stimulus
      • Article by Lord Stern in ‘New Scientist’ magazine
      • Blueprint For Safer Planet
      • Breaking deadlock
      • Bridging the emissions reductions gap in Copenhagen
      • Budget 2009
      • Power Stations
      • Copenhagen agreement
      • Official launch of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
      • Downturn dangerous
      • European Union should give big push on finance and targets for climate change treaty, says Lord Stern
      • Lord Stern calls for UK Parliamentarians to raise the profile of international negotiations on climate change treaty
      • Lord Stern responds to front page story in ‘The Times’
      • Lord Stern welcomes Gordon Brown’s speech on climate change and highlights needs of developing world
    • 2010
      • New report outlines ‘feasible’ way of raising US$100 billion to help developing countries tackle climate change, says Lord Stern
      • Media Release 25.03.10
      • Global warming likely to exceed 1.5°C but could be reduced in long term
      • Global warming of 2˚C will put insurance markets under stress
      • Nicholas Stern welcomes new suggestion for 'Green Fund' by Managing Director of International Monetary Fund
      • Progress has been made on tackling climate change since Copenhagen summit, says Nicholas Stern
      • Statement from Nicholas Stern on a green investment bank
      • Statement from Nicholas Stern on criticism of the IPCC
      • World leaders should aim for political agreement on climate change by end of this year, says Nicholas Stern
      • China will lead the world’s green industrial revolution, says Nicholas Stern
      • Africa should receive urgent funding for adaptation to climate change impacts
      • Statement by Nicholas Stern on Cancún agreement
      • New research shows rise in wealth is driving increase in global economic losses from extreme weather by US$2.7 billion per year
      • Climate change talks should focus on ‘building blocks’ of policy instead of international treaty
  • Commentary
    • 2011
      • Feb
        • Sceptical confusion about the carbon cycle
      • Jan
        • Adapting to the impacts of climate change in the UK
      • August
        • The Australian Government’s proposals for a carbon pricing policy
      • July
        • BBC coverage of climate change should be accurate as well as impartial
        • Shhh! The story that 'sceptics' don't want you to read
        • Why the EU should be cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2020
        • A media relations mistake and inaccurate reporting about climate change
      • March
        • Cold comfort for ‘sceptics’ in Antarctic research
      • May
        • The most error-ridden web page about climate change? A look at the evidence
        • The most error-ridden web page about climate change?
        • HM Treasury hamstrings the Green Investment Bank
      • November
        • Reports spell double trouble for the climate
  • Store-docs
    • Climate Models Symposium PR
    • Official launch of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
    • Countdown to Copenhagen
    • Centre Deputy Director Jouni Paavola speaks at a special screening for the Council of Europe's Environment Committee
    • A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
    • Clarity is Crucial
  • In the news
    • 2011
    • 2010
  • Announcements
    • 2012
    • 2011
      • 'Confidence from uncertainty' - new exhibit at the Royal Society is on interpreting climate predictions
      • 'Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa' book one of University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership's (CPSL) 'Top 40 books of 2010'
      • New Background Note on 'Leveraging private investment: the role of public sector climate finance'
      • New commission confronts threats to food security from climate change
      • Visit by Professor David Mackay of the Department of Energy and Climate Change
      • Lord Stern receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
    • 2010
      • CCCEP members attend world climate summit in Cancun
      • CCCEP associate gives presentation at UK-China seminar on climate change and agriculture
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