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Fiscal responsibility and a growth story for Europe|

Commentary by Nicholas Stern: "The European Union has reached a critical point in its history, facing simultaneously a severe political-economic crisis, and its biggest opportunity to create and sustain prosperity and well-being for its people."

Podcast now available for public lecture on 'Precautionary Politics'|

This lecture explained the shift in global regulatory leadership from the United States to Europe. Speaker was Professor David Vogel, Solomon P Lee Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics, Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and author of 'The Politics of Precaution'.

Climate change and violence: a bleak picture but there’s still room for optimism|

"Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth’s poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. Susannah Fisher looks closer at Climate Wars, noting that although climate change throws up many social challenges, of which worsening violence may be one, it could also act as a force for positive social change more broadly and a new development paradigm.

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: 'Sustainability in the tropics: does a boom in deforestation lead to a bust in development?'|

Diana Weinhold, Eustáquio J. Reis and Petterson Molina Vale: "We revisit the hypothesis tested in Rodrigues et al. (2009) that the process of human development in Amazonia follows a boom-and-bust (inverted U) pattern. We show that the 'boombust' pattern that Rodrigues et al. report is a spurious artefact of spatial correlation, driven primarily by the large, multifaceted (and unobserved) differences between municipalities in and around Amazonas and Maranhão states."

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|

"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."

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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