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China injects vigour into carbon debate|

Financial Times: "[China's] fledgling plans to start seven pilot carbon emissions trading schemes have injected vigour into the global environment debate... They could unleash "a huge international market" driving investment in green technologies across the world for decades, says Sir Nicholas Stern, the British economist who wrote a 2006 review on the economics of climate change.

Article by Dr Robert Falkner included in MIT Press’s "50 Influential Journal Articles" anniversary celebration|

Dr Falkner’s article, 'Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: exploring the links' (Global Environmental Politics 3:2, 2003), has been included in the list of 50 influential journal articles published in MIT Press journals, in honour of the Press’ 50th anniversary. Dr Falkner is in the International Relations Department at LSE and also a Grantham associate

Grantham Associate announced as member of the Natural Capital Committee

Giles Atkinson has become a member of the Committee at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Natural Capital Committee will provide advice on the state of English Natural Capital to the Economic Affairs Cabinet Committee, chaired by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Past event: 'Economic analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment'

This seminar examined the application of economic analysis techniques within the expanding field of ecosystem service assessments. Speaker was Ian J. Bateman, Director of Economics for the UK National Ecosystem and Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Past event: Greening China's Growth seminar

Work-in-progress by the World Bank and the Government of China examined the evidence in favour of a greener growth path for China over the next two decades. Speaker was Kirk Hamilton, Research Department, The World Bank.

Past event: EU-Brazil Cooperation on Climate Change|

Part of the Grantham PhD seminar series. Speaker is Carolina Boniatti-Pavese. Open to PhD students at Imperial College and LSE, as well as Grantham Research Institute staff.

Latest working paper: 'Individual consumers and climate change: searching for a new moral compass'|

Tanya O'Garra: "...climate change has a number of features that make it difficult to apprehend as a typical moral problem. This chapter examines each of these features, and discusses how they might be re-cast so that the climate change problem takes the form of a standard moral problem. This chapter also serves as a rudimentary review of the ethics literature relevant to climate change."

'Trade, climate change and the political game theory of border carbon adjustments'
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"The lack of real progress at the Durban climate change conference in 2011—postponing effective action until at least 2020—has many causes, one of which is the failure to address trade issues and in particular carbon leakage."

'The political economy of deforestation in the tropic'|

"Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to combating tropical deforestation."

Policy brief - on restoring confidence and economic growth through green investment and innovation

Photograph of students at the LSE library © LSE / Nigel Stead

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