Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

What is the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy?

Hosted jointly by the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and chaired by Lord Nicholas Stern, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy brings together some of the world's leading researchers on climate change economics and policy, from many different disciplines.

(See story on LWEC website highlighting one of the Centre's projects)

Background

Human-induced climate change is occurring and could impose enormous costs on economies and societies if we persist with 'business as usual'. This is the consensus view of climate scientists and is increasingly accepted by climate-change economists. It is much less certain, however, that our economic, social and political systems can respond to the challenge.

Objectives

• Advance climate change policy and increase the capacity of public and private decision makers to respond to one of the most critical challenges facing the world today
• Support a ‘new global deal' on climate change, through a formal state agreement and through a wider set of actions worldwide, by improving both the evidence base and the tools and implementation strategies available to decision makers
• Undertake an ambitious, innovative and interdisciplinary programme of research, firmly grounded in theory but with practical applications, linking science and social science and combining quantitative and qualitative approaches

Research areas

1. Developing climate science and economics
2. Climate change governance for a new global deal
3. Adaptation to climate change and human development
4. Governments, markets and climate change mitigation
5. The Munich Re Programme - evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector

PROGRAMME FACTS AND FIGURES

Start and end date: 01/10/2008 to 30/09/2013

Website: http://www.cccep.ac.uk