A deepening understanding of the importance of climate change has caused a recent and rapid increase in the number of climate change or climate-related laws. Trends in Climate Change Legislation offers an astute analysis of the political, institutional and economic factors that have motivated this surge, placing it into context. By focusing the analysis on […]
Welcoming the final decisions from the United Nations climate change summit in Bonn, Germany, Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the … read more »
The ‘Today’ programme on BBC Radio 4 has again demonstrated that its editor and producers are too easily fooled by the inaccurate and misleading claims of climate change deniers. On … read more »
Headline issues There are approximately 1,400 climate change-relevant laws worldwide, a twentyfold increase since 1997. Most countries have the legal basis on which further action can build – the challenge … read more »
In the two years following the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, and following the most recent UN Climate Change summit in Bonn, Germany this year, where next for international climate action? read more »
The knotty problem of allocating greenhouse gas emission quotas across countries was, until the Paris Agreement, the primary barrier to concerted action on reducing climate change. Digging deeper, however, two … read more »
This report assesses what is known about potential co-benefits across multiple domains: environmental, economy-wide, and sector-specific. It then reports on empirical results on co-benefits, in particular the application of integrated assessment models (IAMs) to simulate co-benefits over the course of the century. read more »
China is taking an active leadership role in a new global agenda that has sustainable infrastructure at its heart – an agenda that is starting to address the … read more »
CNBC, 7 July 2017
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment spoke at the F20 event in Hamburg on 4th July 2017. The focus of … read more »
