Event type: Past Event

Closing the Loop: climate science, development practice and policy interactions in dryland agro-ecological systems

The literature on drought, livelihoods and poverty suggested that dryland people are especially vulnerable to climate change. However, assessing vulnerability and sharing lessons between regions has proven difficult. The seminar reflected on a structured, multi-scale, interdisciplinary vulnerability assessment of six dryland regions. Studies adopt different levels of quantification to assess: The added value provided by […]

Conference: Grand Challenges in the Transition Towards a Low-Carbon, Climate Resilient Society

The conference included presentations on themes such as climate uncertainties and innovations for a low-carbon economy. Programme Conference schedule (PDF), including details of practitioner and academic commentaries Presentation slides Simon Dietz (PDF) Jouni Paavola (PDF) Emma Tompkins (PDF) Sam Fankhauser (PDF) Videos Video of Michael Jacobs’ keynote address   Video about The Ellsberg Paradox, referenced in Simon Dietz’s presentation

PhD Symposium: Towards Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Societies

The symposium aimed to build capacities and communities of early stage researchers in areas related to climate change economics and policy. ProgrammeSymposium schedule Symposium schedule (PDF) Presentation slides Keynote address from Andy Gouldson – Research Challenges on the Low-Carbon Economy (PDF) Keynote address from Evan Fraser – Research Challenges on Climate-Resilient Societies: the case for food security (PDF) Research methods workshop […]

Terrestrial Carbon and Climate Change

Where, why and how agriculture, forests and other land use can play their part As part of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) 2009-2010 Seminar Series at the University of Leeds Further reading: Policy Brief 7, ‘Roadmap for Terrestrial Carbon Science’, and Policy Brief 6, ‘Estimating Terrestrial Carbon at Risk of Emission’, are […]

How can Climate Change Science and Economics Better Support the Insurance Industry?

Industry roundtable As part of the Munich Re programme Eighteen representatives of the insurance industry attended and engaged in discussions with the aim of helping improve the London School of Economics and Political Science’s understanding of the needs of the insurance industry related to climate change science and economics. The afternoon was also used to present […]

The Additionality Problem with Offsets: optimal contracts for carbon sequestration in forests

The Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series was hosted jointly by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), and the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Further reading: Abstract Carbon Offsets from forest expansion […]

Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? Microevidence from Ethiopia

The Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series was hosted jointly by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), and the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Other seminars in the Climate Change and Environment […]

Munich Re seminar: Improving the IPCC’s Uncertainty Management in Assessing Climate Change, Impacts and Response

Dealing consistently with risk and uncertainty across the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports is a difficult challenge. Huge practical difficulties arise from the Panel’s scale and interdisciplinary context, the complexity of the climate change issue and its political context. In this presentation, the observed differences in the handling of uncertainties by the three […]