The Munich Re Programme of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy held an academic symposium, at which invited experts discussed findings and compared competing methodologies for normalising disaster losses. The symposium provided an opportunity for presentations of latest findings and open, and progressive discussion on methodologies and the relevance of this research area […]
Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series (LSE) in October and November 2010 Until very recently in policy design and evaluation, economists have shied away from equity analysis – the distribution of benefits and costs across stakeholders – and have focused instead on economic efficiency as their primary performance criterion. Yet it is […]
Part of the Climate Change and Environment Autumn 2010 seminar series In his seminar, Robert argued that we needed a major reassessment of the current approach to building a climate regime was needed, which was focused on the idea of a comprehensive, universal and legally binding treaty that prescribes, in a top-down fashion, generally applicable policies […]
Part of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy’s 2010-2011 Public Lecture Series The science of climate change has been assessed every five or so years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in the late 80s, while global policy […]
Joint seminar with the Sustainability Research Institute
Part of the Seminar Series at Leeds Biography – David Howlett David Howlett is Executive Director of Africa College and a visiting senior research fellow in climate change and agriculture at the University of Leeds. He is currently working with research scientists across different faculties at Leeds and with African research partners to increase the […]
Joint seminar with the Sustainability Research Institute.
Part of the APCO Worldwide Perspectives on Europe Series The cold war era was characterised by a bipolarity based on ideologies and nuclear arms. The post cold war era will increasingly be defined by energy. Power and economic welfare will depend on a country’s or region’s access to the world’s decreasing fossil fuels or the development […]
Robustness has been widely identified as a desirable attribute of decisions that have to be taken under conditions of severe uncertainty. We think of a decision being robust to uncertainty if it yields acceptable outcomes under a wide range of possible futures. Yet robustness is seldom cost free. It usually entails sacrificing some performance relative […]
