The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Spectator reveals worrying insight into direction of Tory policy on climate |

Bob Ward, The Guardian, 10 May: "This week's issue of the Spectator provides a worrying insight into the possible future direction of Conservative party policy on energy and the climate. The front cover promotes an article by Peter Lilley, the MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, which hypes up the benefits of shale gas, based on poor analysis, woolly thinking and an apparently visceral hatred for environmentalists."

Preventing a carbon bubble crash |

13 May, ABC Environment: "Investment in fossil fuel companies is becoming increasingly unpopular for environment-minded citizens and astute investors alike."

Past public lecture: 'Itinerant Farming to White House Arrests: a scientist’s view of the climate crisis'|

If our governments continue to fail to advance effective policy, thus causing continued extraction of every fossil fuel that can be found, today's children, future generations, and nature will bear the consequences, through no fault of their own. A variety of options for making governments do their job were discussed by Dr James Hansen, Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences at Columbia University.

Past seminar: Making policy decisions when you know you are unaware|

Part of the Climate Change and Environment Research Seminar Series.
Speaker: Oliver Walker, University of Cambridge.  

Working paper: 'Discounting under disagreement'

Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner: "A group of time consistent agents has access to a common productive resource stock whose output provides their consumption needs. The agents disagree about the appropriate pure rate of time preference to use when choosing a consumption policy, and thus delegate the management of the resource to a social planner who allocates consumption eciently across individuals and over time. We show that the planner's optimal policy is equivalent to that of a representative agent with a time varying rate of impatience."

Latest policy paper: 'Climate change in the National Curriculum in England: Submission to a consultation by the Department for Education'|

Naomi Hicks, Bob Ward and Sarah Lester: "We note that the Framework document proposes that the aim of the National Curriculum should be to provide pupils with “an introduction to the core knowledge that they need to be educated citizens”. However, we believe that the aim of the National Curriculum should be defined to provide pupils with the essential knowledge, skills and understanding that they need to be educated citizens."