The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Climate change|

Bob Ward, The Times (letter; subscription is required): "Sir, While new research suggests that the short-term rate of global warming may be less than previously thought, Lord Ridley’s rather complacent assertion that “climate change will be slow and harmless” is based on turning a blind eye to uncertainties in the science (Opinion, May 20)."

Grantham Research Institute wins Platinum Green Impact award|

The Grantham Research Institute has been awarded the prestigious platinum award for its Green Impact sustainability programme. Green Impact is a nationally run programme led by the National Union of Students (NUS), which assesses university departments’ actions to reduce their environmental impact and promote sustainability among staff and students.

Past seminar: Information transmission in irrigation technology adoption and diffusion: social learning, extension services and spatial effects|

Part of the Climate Change and Environment Research Seminar Series. Speaker: Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business. Date: 22 May 2013.

Past lecture: 'Multilateralism in Crisis: environmental conflict and stalemate in the trade and climate regimes'|

On Monday 20 May, Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, highlighted the commonalities and connections between the stalemates in the Doha trade round and the post-Kyoto climate negotiations from the standpoint of environmental multilateralism. The presentation also critically assessed the most commonly discussed explanation to account for the stalemate - namely, the shift towards a more multipolar world (the ‘power shift’ argument) - and explored the consequences of failure for each set of negotiations.

Latest working paper: 'Tenure insecurity and investment in soil conservation. Evidence from Malawi'|

Stefania Lovo: "The paper focuses on two main sources of tenure insecurity: informal short-term tenancy contracts and customary gender-biased inheritance practices. Both sources of insecurity matter for soil conservation investments and are likely to be unaffected by the introduction of land titling alone."

Working paper: 'Sectors under scrutiny – Evaluation of indicators to assess the risk of carbon leakage in the UK and Germany'|

Misato Sato, Karsten Neuhoff, Verena Graichen, Katja Schumacher and Felix Matthes: "This study sets out a simple analytical framework and several indicators to measure the relative potential exposure of manufacturing sectors to emissions leakage."