Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Lead Research Organisation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Department Name: Geography and Environment
Abstract
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Publications
Laing T
(2015)
Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence
in Resource and Energy Economics
Hepburn C
(2013)
Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations
in Journal of Public Economics
Rimas Andrew
(2010)
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Foxon T J
(2010)
Energy for the future: a new agenda
in Environmental Values
MacKenzie I
(2011)
Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration
in Oxford Economic Papers
Wong S
(2011)
Entrepreneurialising solar lanterns to solve energy poverty in India : potential and limitations
in Journal of scientific and industrial research
Barnes, Trevor J.; Batty, Michael; Elden, Professor Stuart; Bennett, Robert J.; Peck, Jamie A.; Thrift, Nigel; Longley, Paul A.
(2011)
Environment and Planning
Calvello, Angelo
(2009)
Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change
Taschini L
(2009)
Environmental Economics and Modeling Marketable Permits
in Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
Brady, John; Ebbage, Alison; Lunn, Ruth
(2011)
Environmental Management in Organizations: The IEMA Handbook
Calel R
(2012)
Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Bowen A
(2010)
Environmental policy and the economic downturn
in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Hepburn C
(2010)
Environmental policy, government, and the market
in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Dietz S
(2010)
Environmental prices, uncertainty, and learning
in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Ravera F
(2011)
Envisioning Adaptive Strategies to Change: Participatory Scenarios for Agropastoral Semiarid Systems in Nicaragua
in Ecology and Society
Rap A
(2010)
Estimating the climate impact of linear contrails using the UK Met Office climate model
in Geophysical Research Letters
Di Falco S
(2011)
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Low-Income Countries: Household Level Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia
in Environmental and Resource Economics
Andrade De Sá S
(2011)
Ethanol Production, Food and Forests
in Environmental and Resource Economics
Afionis S
(2012)
EU climate leadership under test
in Nature Climate Change
Afionis S
(2012)
European Union leadership in biofuels regulation: Europe as a normative power?
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Forster P
(2013)
Evaluating adjusted forcing and model spread for historical and future scenarios in the CMIP5 generation of climate models
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Forster P
(2011)
Evaluation of radiation scheme performance within chemistry climate models
in Journal of Geophysical Research
Krosinsky, Cary; Robins, Nick; Viederman, Stephen
(2012)
Evolutions in Sustainable Investing: Strategies, Funds and Thought Leadership
Fraser E
(2009)
Explaining agricultural collapse: Macro-forces, micro-crises and the emergence of land use vulnerability in southern Romania
in Global Environmental Change
Smith L
(2010)
Exploiting dynamical coherence: A geometric approach to parameter estimation in nonlinear models
in Physics Letters A
Vasileiadou E
(2011)
Exploring the impact of the IPCC Assessment Reports on science
in Environmental Science & Policy
Bailey, Ian; Compston, Hugh
(2012)
Feeling the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Rapidly Industrializing Countries
Thomas R
(2012)
Fertile ground? Options for a science-policy platform for land
in Environmental Science & Policy
Surminski S
(2012)
Flood Hazards: Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment
Ingram, John; Ericksen, Polly; Liverman, Diana
(2010)
Food Security and Global Environmental Change
Simelton E
(2011)
Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China
in Food Security
Challinor A
(2011)
Forecasting food
in Nature Climate Change
Tompkins E
(2009)
Foreignness as a constraint on learning: The impact of migrants on disaster resilience in small islands
in Environmental Hazards
Ditt E
(2010)
Forest conversion and provision of ecosystem services in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
in Land Degradation & Development
De Vos M
(2013)
Formalizing knowledge on international environmental regimes: A first step towards integrating political science in integrated assessments of global environmental change
in Environmental Modelling & Software
Fankhauser S
(2011)
From adaptation to climate-resilient development: The costs of climate-proofing the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
in Climate and Development
Lopez A
(2009)
From climate model ensembles to climate change impacts and adaptation: A case study of water resource management in the southwest of England
in Water Resources Research
Paavola J
(2009)
From Market Failure Paradigm to an Institutional Theory of Environmental Governance
in Economia Delle Fonti Di Energia E Dell'Ambiente
Sullivan R
(2012)
Funding low carbon cities: local perspectives on opportunities and risks
in Climate Policy
Sullivan R
(2012)
Funding Low Carbon Cities: Mapping the Risks and Opportunities
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Stern N
(2010)
Gérer les changements climatiques. Climat, croissance, développement et équité (extraits)
in La lettre du Collège de France
Hall A
(2011)
Getting REDD-y: conservation and climate change in Latin America.
in Latin American research review
Spracklen D
(2011)
Global cloud condensation nuclei influenced by carbonaceous combustion aerosol
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
GEA Writing Team; Nakicenovic, Nebojsa
(2012)
Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future
Matthew, Richard A.; Barnett, Jon; McDonald, Bryan L.; O'Brien, Karen L.; Dabelko, Geoffrey D.
(2009)
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Biermann, Frank; Pattberg, Philipp H.
(2012)
Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Biermann, Frank; Pattberg, Philipp H.
(2012)
Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered
FALKNER R
(2012)
Global environmentalism and the greening of international society
in International Affairs
Heyvaert V
(2011)
Governing Climate Change: Towards a New Paradigm for Risk Regulation
in The Modern Law Review
Description | ABC interview on adaptation policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | As part of the University of Melbourne's 'Victorian climate change adaptation week', Dr Samuel Fankhauser, of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation regarding adaptation policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Adaptation economics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Key note lecture at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College, economics day. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Adaptation responses and social justice issues |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | ESRC/Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Local Government Association Public Policy Seminar: 'How will climate change affect people in the UK and how can we best develop an equitable response?' |
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URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Images/Tompkins-ESRC-JRF-LGA-Nov09-v2_tcm6-34995.pdf |
Description | Andrew Gouldson on economics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Podcast on who foots the bill for climate change. Originally filmed for The Guardian website, now available on ESRC Youtube |
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Description | Carbon taxes : good for the environment, not bad for the economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | In a recent study researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) show that carbon taxes can reduce pollution without harming the economy. In 2001 the U.K. government introduced a tax on various energy fuels for industry - the Climate Change Levy (CCL). A research team from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the LSE, led by Ralf Martin, has conducted an in depth evaluation of the effect of this policy on individual firms using a representative sample of the UK economy which includes detailed data on more than 10.000 enterprises. They found that the Climate Change Levy - which on average corresponds to a £20 carbon tax per ton - has had a strong impact on power usage by companies and reduced electricity consumption for the average manufacturing firm by 10 to 20 percent. The economists also examined whether the levy had had any adverse impacts on economic performance of companies in areas such as employment or productivity. They did not find any evidence for this. Ralf Martin - who is part of the AGF funded 'sustainable growth in europe' research team - summarises the outcome of the research as "good for the planet and not bad for the economy". He goes even further, suggesting that an increase in carbon taxes and a simultaneous reduction of taxes on wages and employment could be the ideal policy measure in the current crisis, as it would secure existing jobs without leading to more government borrowing. |
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URL | http://www.agf.org.uk/programme/events/2009/index.html |
Description | Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | We exploit new _rm-level panel data on "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents in the automobile industry across 80 countries. We show that _rms tend to innovate more in clean technologies when they face higher tax-inclusive fuel prices and higher R&D subsidies to clean innovation. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from countrywide knowledge spillovers and from the _rm's own history of innovation. This implies that if economies and _rms that inherit a history of dirty innovation are more likely to become "locked in" to more dirty innovation in the future. Consequently, the results reinforce the argument for early policy intervention against climate change to induce more directed clean technical change. |
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Description | Challenges in the extraction of decision relevant information from multi-decadal ensembles of global circulation models |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presented at the climate change workshop, a workshop on the role of mathematics and statistics in the study of climate change. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.samsi.info/200910/spatial/climate/Stainforth_SAMSI_d1_04.ppt |
Description | Climate change : India |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A two day workshop which continues work established in India during 2008. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/asiaResearchCentre/ |
Description | Climate change and the economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | BBC Today |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Conceptual and methodological challenges in analysing local governance, urbanisation and climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Small working group to review the progress of an ESRC funded project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Copenhagen : hope melting away? (2nd part) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Programme featuring a debate about the Climate Change Summit and asking, as the summit nears its end without a real agreement in reach, has Copenhagen been a failure? Dimitri Zenghelis, Chief Economist, Cisco Climate Change Practice and Chatham House Associate Fellow for the Energy, Environment and Development Programme, participates in the debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Difficulties in deriving forecast probabilities from general circulation models and efforts to estimate uncertainty in future climate projections |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Discusses proposed operational alternatives to the assumption of stationarity in hydrologic frequency analysis that can be used in a transitional period. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.cwi.colostate.edu/NonstationarityWorkshop/SpeakerInfo/Stainforth_Abstract.pdf |
Description | Economic downturn and climate change policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | An invited talk to the Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs of the Council of Europe |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Energy transition as a global challenge : the case of renewable energy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Global Governance School for highly qualified young professionals for eight anchor countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://gc21.inwent.org/ibt/en/ilt/ibt/programme/mgg/xhtml/index.sxhtml |
Description | Future of food |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | In this three-part series, George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a growing global food crisis that could affect the planet in the years ahead. Dr Evan Fraser is featured in all three one-hour programmes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Getting to four degrees |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Dr Tompkins was an 'expert' contributor to a BBC Radio 4 afternoon play on climate change. 'What if we can't limit global warming to two degrees? What if it reaches four degrees - or more? Three real-life climate change experts spin one average family into the future, to look at life on a warmer planet. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Global food security |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at a research seminar at the University of Guelph |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Gordon Brown's speech on Copenhagen to the major economies forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Professor Gouldson was interviewed on Radio 5 Live regarding Gordon Brown's speech on Copenhagen |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Green fiscal stimulus packages |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | BIEE seminar on sustainable energy - the next crisis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.biee.org/downloads.php |
Description | India's role in international action on climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | ESRC-ICSSR workshop : environmental sustainability and climate change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IndiaObservatory/wordDocuments/ESRCWorkshopPgmFinal.doc |
Description | Interpreting models in a climate change context : summary of the day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A workshop to engage the public and private sectors in discussion of uncertainty in model interpretation relating to climate change. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.cccep.ac.uk/Events/MunichReSymposium1.aspx |
Description | Low carbon prosperity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Participation at the Globe Legislators Forum on climate change in Copenhagen; two presentations on low carbon prosperity were given to an audience of approximately 100 legislators from G20 countries |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | New, emerging and neglected science questions in the RESCUE remit - a social science perspective |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | The two day event was entitled; Vulnerable or Adaptable? Understanding Social and Economic Responses to Global Environmental Change and was the European Science Foundation launch of the RESCUE initiative |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.esf.org/activities/forward-looks/life-earth-and-environmental-sciences-lesc/current-forwa... |
Description | Recession and the green economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | This was the third of the ESRC's 'global financial crisis' lecture series and focused on the opportunities offered by the green economy in the current economic downturn. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/PO/briefings/Recession_and_the_Green_Economy.aspx |
Description | Sir Paul chews over the facts about meat and saving the planet |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article about Sir Paul McCartney launching a campaign encouraging people to give up meat on Mondays. Dr Evan Fraser, a senior lecturer in sustainable development at Leeds University, is interviewed about vegetarianism not always being the greenest option and suggests that meat reared in Yorkshire is better for the environment than soya beans that come from the Brazilian rainforests. Yorkshire Post |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Sir-Paul-chews-over-the.5368936.jp |
Description | Social justice and a new deal on climate change in Copenhagen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Professor Paavola was invited to give a seminar as part of the School of Development (DEV) Seminar Series, at the University of East Anglia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | https://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/research/seminars/seminarsautumn2009 |
Description | Stimulating investment in energy materials and technologies to combat climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Discussion meeting, with invited speakers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://royalsociety.org/Event.aspx?id=1901 |
Description | The CCC October report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the Climate Change Committee October report to Welsh stakeholders and participation in a meeting of the Welsh Climate Change Commission |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | The economics of avoided deforestation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Deforestation (REDD) at the GLOBE Pittsburg meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | The effects of carbon prices on business : a conservative estimate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | This study exploits tries to determine the impact of carbon taxes on energy usage and other performance indicators of manufacturing firms in the UK using a unique identification strategy. In 2001, the UK government introduced the so-called Climate Change Levy (CCL) a tax on energy fuels for businesses. To examine the impact of the tax, we exploit that some busineses - those entering a so called climate chane agreement (CCA) - received an 80 per cent discount on the tax. This raises two issues. Firstly, CCA firms had to comply with firm-specific energy consumption targets. Comparing CCA with non-CCA firms will therefore provide a lower bound for the impact of an 80 per cent tax difference. Secondly, participation in the CCA is voluntary which leads to a selection endogeneity. The study addresses this by exploiting certain exogeneous variations in eligibility which we use as the basis for an instrument. The preliminary findings are that the climate change levy had a significant impact on energy usage of firms but not on other performance variables such as output or employment. The latter result is consistent with the hypothesis that the CCL scheme did not have negative effects on the international competitiveness of businesses in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.psi.org.uk/events/event.asp?event_id=140 |
Description | The interpretation and design of ensembles of complex models for climate change decision making |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A current debate in the climate modelling community relates to the question of how to balance computational resources between higher resolution models, more complex models, and larger ensembles. While efforts to increase resolution and complexity still takes the lion share of resources there are nevertheless growing numbers of ensembles of climate change simulations, including the CMIP3 ensemble for the IPCC, the climateprediction.net project and others. As such ensembles proliferate it becomes increasingly important to question a) how to best design such ensembles, and b) how they should be interpreted by and for decision and policy makers. These questions will be addressed in this talk in the context of a categorisation of uncertainties in this extrapolatory problem. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~dswc09/ |
Description | The socio-economic determinants of drought vulnerability |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at a research seminar at the University of London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The tragedy of the commons and doubly symmetric games |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at workshop titled 'The role of social norms in building a low carbon society'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/low_carbon/research/socialnorms/ |
Description | Towards climate resilient, low carbon cities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation to leaders of 8 local authorities in the Leeds area |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |