Blogs: Climate

Climate change is a major global concern whose impacts are felt locally. Our expertise can help you understand the impact of climate policies.

COP26: Raise the ambition and support a Just Transition

With days to go until COP26, Chair of Cambridge Econometrics Richard Lewney calls for more ambitious decarbonisation targets and a Just Transition. Richard shares top scenario analysis insights using our global macroeconomic model E3ME.

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Biden’s first 100 days – action on climate change

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Jon Stenning, Head of Environment, welcomes Joe Biden’s commitment to evidence-based policy development.

He urges policy makers at Federal and State-levels to use robust economic tools to develop effective decarbonisation policies.

America’s potential pathway to net zero

Creating the UK socio-economic scenarios for climate resilience

Paula Harrison, Simona Pedde and Zuzana Harmáčková from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) provide the latest update on the ongoing UK-SSPs project. They share more about what socio-economic scenarios are, why they are important and introduce the five UK soci…

A Diet Green New Deal: Relief, Recovery, and Transformation?

Although he might still be insisting otherwise, Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Joe Biden secured a victory with a record-breaking popular vote and the necessary electoral college votes to safely secure the presidency. Biden won the presidency,&nb…

Net-zero China: millions of workers will be affected

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Our Principal Economic Modeller, Unnada Chewpreecha, takes a look at what China’s net zero pledge means for jobs in the country.

Two weeks ago, President Xi of China announced that China intended to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (net-zero CO2…