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Special Lecture by Jeremy Grantham in March

Posted 14 Feb 2012 in

On March 14, Jeremy Grantham will speak at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College on ‘Attitudes in America to Investing, Resource Limitations and Global Warming: irrational avoidance of the unpleasant’. Jeremy Grantham is co-founder and chief strategist of GMO, LLC and founder of the Grantham Institutes at Imperial and LSE. Advance registration is required.
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Lord Nicholas Stern to deliver three lectures on climate change and the New Industrial Revolution

Posted 13 Feb 2012 in

As part of the Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures 2012, Nicholas Stern will give three lectures over three successive days (Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 February). Five years on from the Stern Review, there have been important changes in the world, which are likely to have a profound impact on our response to the two defining challenges of the century, overcoming poverty and managing climate change. Lord Stern will discuss how we can bring economics and political economy to the analysis of our response to these challenges in the context of a special but difficult decade in the global economy. Hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP).
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Anthropogenic global warming ‘stopped’ in 1997…and in 1996, 1995, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978 and 1972

Posted 3 Feb 2012 in

Self-proclaimed climate change ‘sceptics’ have for the past few years been recycling the myth that anthropogenic global warming has ‘stopped’. But these ‘sceptics’ always fail to point out is that, based on their logic, manmade global warming has actually ‘stopped’ nine times since 1970, in 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1995, 1996 and 1997. And they fail to mention that the underlying anthropogenic warming trend is clear and unambiguous when temperature data for the past four decades are taken into account. read more »


Comment: Why climate equity matters in India

Posted 1 Feb 2012 in

One of the defining moments of the Durban conference was the Indian Minister Jayanthi Natarajan’s passionate speech on equity in the international negotiations. Responding to Climate Change