Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series: Lent Term 2012 Seminars Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is currently a major topic in the debate on policies to mitigate climate change. Developing mechanisms to ensure equity and permanence is a major challenge in REDD+ scheme design. This study contributes to the […]
The above paper, written by Caterina Gennaioli and Massimo Tavoni, will be presented. Taking a political economy approach, the link between public support schemes for renewable energy and the potential scope for rent seeking and corruption is analysed. The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested empirically using a panel […]
The seminar explores many of the key issues surrounding the UK’s GHG consumption-based emissions from a methodological and political perspective. The presentation will address the recent trends in consumption-based emissions, consider the robustness of measurements, address issues of carbon leakage, identify policy options and international responses.
Part of the CCCEP / SRI seminar series 2011-2012 Companies make a huge contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and have a potentially huge contribution to make (through the provision of technology, finance, expertise, etc) to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, with international negotiations on climate change seemingly becalmed and the desire of […]
Leeds City Region currently has an energy bill in excess of £5bn a year – or 10% of its GDP – and this is increasing every year. Are there cost effective ways of cutting this energy bill whilst also enhancing competitiveness and creating employment? If so, where are the most cost and carbon effective options, […]
Part of the CCCEP / SRI seminar series 2011-2012. More information Download the presentation slides (PDF, 2.7MB)
Part of the ‘Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2011’, hosted jointly by the Grantham Research Institute, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment.
Part of the CCCEP / SRI seminar series 2011-2012 It is generally assumed that energy efficiency improvements will reduce overall energy consumption, at least compared to a scenario in which such improvements are not made. But a range of mechanisms, commonly grouped under the heading of rebound effects, may reduce the size of the ‘energy […]
Part of the ‘Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2011’, hosted jointly by the Grantham Research Institute, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment.
Public lecture: part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science The various sciences of climate change have made it utterly clear that ‘human behaviour’ is essential to understanding the causes and impacts of so-called ‘global warming’. However, the discipline that so far mainly represents and models human behaviour is economics. But this is a problem because […]
