Past Events

What next for international climate action?

Speaker(s): Emma Howard Boyd (Chair, Environment Agency), Professor Dame Judith Rees (Vice Chair, Grantham Research Institute), Professor Lord Stern (Chair, Grantham Research Institute), Lord Turner (Chair, Institute for New Economic Thinking)
4 Oct 2018 at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ

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 »

Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification | Catherine Wolfram

Speaker(s): Catherine Wolfram, University of California
3 Oct 2018 at LSE, TW2, Room 9.04, London

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

25 Jun 2018 at Handels: B 33, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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 »

LSE Executive Education course | Climate change: economics and governance

Speaker(s): Simon Dietz, Sam Fankhauser, David Stainforth
11 Jun 2018 at LSE, London

This multi-disciplinary five-day course provides an in-depth overview of the economics and governance of climate change, and the risks and opportunities they present for a range of organisations. The course begins with an intensive introduction to climate change as a scientific and particularly as a social scientific issue, intended to bring students up-to-speed with the […]

Policies to finance energy efficiency

1 Jun 2018 at London School of Economics, Tower 2, Room 9.04, Clement's Inn Passage, London, WC2A 2AZ

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 »

Energy related financial literacy, bounded rationality and the energy efficiency gap

Speaker(s): Professor Massimo Filippini
31 May 2018 at London School of Economics, Tower 2, Room 9.04, Clement's Inn Passage, London, WC2A 2AZ

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 »

Cumulative carbon emissions and economic policy: in search of general principles | Grantham Workshop

7 Mar 2018 at London School of Economics, London, UK (Room details to be confirmed)

Further details will be provided nearer the time

A Green History of the Welfare State

Speaker(s): Tony Fitzpatrick (University of Nottingham)
1 Mar 2018 at 32L 1.04 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

More details on this event will be posted nearer the time

RiverBlue: can fashion save the planet?

23 Feb 2018 at London School of Economics, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ

Do you know how your clothes are made? The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Department of Geography and Environment present a screening of RiverBlue (2016), a documentary examining the harsh … read more »

Beveridge’s Sixth Giant

19 Feb 2018 at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Beveridge’s “Five Giants” remain central issues in discussions about the welfare state today, but there are also new challenges that have emerged since the 1940s. Which “Giant” issue would a modern … read more »