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Developing Policy Regimes for Combating Climate Change

25 Jan 2011 at Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, Londo

A CAGE/CCCEP workshop. The focus was on the ongoing global climate change negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, following on from the December 2009 meeting in Copenhagen, policy initiatives towards a low-carbon economy, both nationally and internationally, and the situation after the December 2010 Cancun UNFCCC meeting. More information Competitive Advantage in […]

Climate Change, Justice, and Future Generations

Speaker(s): Joerg Tremmel
18 Jan 2011 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Abstract Part of the 2011 Lent Term seminar series Next to the expanding bookshelves in the natural sciences and in political science, there is a growing library written by the new breed of ‘climate ethicists’ (Broome, Caney, Jamieson, Gardiner, Gosseries, Meyer, Ott, Page, Shue, Singer, Sunstein, Vanderheiden, to mention only a few) on the ethics […]

Transition Pathways for a Low-Carbon Electricity System in the UK

Speaker(s): Tim Foxon
7 Dec 2010 at School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds

Part of CCCEP Seminar Series (Leeds) This talk presented initial results on the development and analysis of transition pathways for a low carbon electricity system in the UK, being pursued in a large interdisciplinary research project that brings together engineers and social scientists. This talk presented initial results on the development and analysis of transition […]

Social Equity, Context-Dependence and Analytical Rigour: can they be brought together for better policy design?

Speaker(s): Steven Schilizzi
30 Nov 2010 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

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 […]

The Study of Economic Loss from Natural Disasters

Speaker(s): Professor Leonard Smith,
30 Nov 2010 at London

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 […]

The Evolution of Adaptation in Science and Global Policy: autumn lecture

Speaker(s): Dr Saleemul Huq, Andy Gouldson, Jouni Paavola
16 Nov 2010 at University of Leeds

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 […]

Cancun and Food Security

2 Nov 2010 at University of Leeds

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 […]

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

Speaker(s): Charles F Mason
28 Oct 2010 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), LG09, New Academic Building

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 […]