What next for international climate action?
In this event to celebrate the Grantham Research Institute’s 10th anniversary, the panel will explore how climate action needs to develop in the next 10 years to successfully deliver the … read more »
Event type: Past Event
‘Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Society’
Dr Max Boykoff Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder Deputy Editor, … read more »
Noise Pollution and Violence | Timo Heer
Timo Heer will be discussing his paper: Noise Pollution and Violence Abstract Exposure to noise pollution carries some health risks that also come with air pollution. However, noise also affects … read more »
After COP 24, Katowice: have the rules to deliver on the Paris Agreement been agreed?
COP 24 in Katowice, Poland, is being held three years after the landmark climate change agreement reached in Paris, and only a few months after the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees called for urgent action.
Human rights and climate change
Hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and LSE Law An expert panel will discuss the links between human rights and climate change, and whether … read more »
A New Era for Business
In an era of declining trust, growing inequality and spiralling climate change, Paul Polman will talk about the changing role of business and the opportunities presented by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to deliver … read more »
Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification | Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, will discuss her paper: Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification. Abstract We present results from an experiment that randomized the expansion … read more »
Frontiers of research on carbon markets: theory and evidence for policy
Over the last decade the use of markets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has come of age. Carbon markets are now in operation, in the pipeline or under consideration in … read more »
Energy related financial literacy, bounded rationality and the energy efficiency gap
There is evidence that many individuals make suboptimal investment decisions when the benefits and costs associated with that decision are distributed over time. One example is the decision to adopt … read more »
Policies to finance energy efficiency
This workshop, hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science will draw on the insights of a … read more »