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Centre director clicks with his audience on the transition to low carbon business

Speaker(s): Andy Gouldson
22 Mar 2011 at Greenhouse, Leeds

Andy Gouldson, Director of CCCEP (Leeds), presented research findings on pathways to low-carbon business. Members of the 80-strong audience, of businesspeople, practitioners, activists and academics, were given the chance to vote on the appeal of a range of low carbon investment opportunities using real time `clickers’. The data will feed into a wider study which […]

The Low-Carbon Industrial Revolution

Speaker(s): Lord Nicholas Stern, Michael Jacobs
17 Mar 2011 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Public lecture, part of the LSE Works series. Speaker was Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP).

Visit by Professor David Mackay of the Department of Energy and Climate Change

Speaker(s): David MacKay
11 Mar 2011 at University of Leeds

The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) recently hosted a visit by the Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Professor David MacKay. Centre staff were joined by representatives from partner organisations, including the UK Energy Research Centre, the Centre for Low Carbon Futures, Quantum Strategy and Technology, […]

Climate Mitigation: sustainable preferences and cumulative carbon

Speaker(s): Simon Buckle
10 Mar 2011 at University of Leeds

Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series, Lent term 2011 (LSE). Hosted jointly by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, CCCEP, and the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.

Practices and energy use in fuel poor social housing in the UK: reflections on a pilot study

Speaker(s): Lucie Middlemiss
1 Mar 2011 at University of Leeds

Fuel poverty, where a household spends more than 10 per cent of its income on energy bills, affects around 4 to 5 million households in the UK. With the rising cost of energy it is crucial to understand the energy practices and concerns of the fuel poor, so that appropriate responses can be designed for […]

Netimpact lecture: Business Perspectives on the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Speaker(s): Andy Gouldson
28 Feb 2011 at University of Leeds

Co-organised by Netimpact and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at the University of Leeds Professor Andy Gouldson, Director of CCCEP and based at the University of Leeds, presented research findings on pathways to low-carbon business. Andrew Hartley, Operations Director for CO2Sense Yorkshire, followed with a practitioner commentary on the key drivers and barriers and […]

Workshop: UK Green Economy Roadmap

28 Feb 2011 at University of Leeds

The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in Leeds held a workshop on the UK green economy roadmap. The workshop included an exploration of trade, consumption and carbon flows, innovation-friendly policy, the low-carbon skills agenda, and creating investment certainty. Additional contributers included government departments (Department of Energy and Climate Change [DECC], the Department of […]

Panel discussion: ‘After Cancun: The prospects for international climate diplomacy’

Speaker(s): Robert Falkner
25 Feb 2011 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Panellists: Peter Betts, Director of International Climate Strategy, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change – DECC Michael Jacobs, Visiting Professor at Grantham Research Institute and Special Adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004 to 2010 Sebastian Oberthuer, Academic Director at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and member of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol

‘The Prisoners’ Dilemma, Tragedy of the Commons, Nash Equilibrium, Cows, and Climate Change’

Speaker(s): Rodrigo Lozano
1 Feb 2011 at University of Leeds

Part of the CCCEP Seminar Series at Leeds Conventional individualistic behaviours with their quest for profit maximisation and wealth accumulation have created economic, environmental and social imbalances in today’s world. These imbalances threaten to become worse in the coming years, decades and centuries. Calls and efforts towards sustainable development (SD) seek to establish a dynamic […]