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.

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…

Ground-breaking climate resilience project bears fruit

A ground-breaking project, carried out by Cambridge Econometrics (CE), The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), University of Edinburgh and University of Exeter for the Met Office is underway.

It seeks to develop consistent shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) for th…

The risks of extending the EU Emissions Trading System

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The European Commission is currently running a public consultation on extending the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to include road transport and the heating of buildings.

Jon Stenning explores the issue, drawing on technology diffusion and macroeconomic a…

Investing for sustainable growth

Andrew Sentance argues that to achieve a net zero economy by 2050 the UK government must invest now.

The economic model that has developed in the UK and other major economies over the past 250 years of industrialisation and economic development is heavily dependent on the burn…

What do our economic models tell us about green growth?

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Is it really possible to keep on consuming more and more, while still respecting societal and environmental boundaries?

Will the future be one of green growth (the economy grows while resource use falls) or degrowth (economic growth is constrained in order to reduce envir…