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LSE's world-leading centre for policy-relevant research & training in climate change & the environment, chaired by Lord Nicholas Stern. Tweets by Merlin Sibley.

LSE, London, UK lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit… Joined November 2010

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Grantham LSE @GRI_LSE 5d

We are delighted to announce that Jenny Park has been awarded the first Adeline Stuart-Watt Award. Jenny was nominated for her dissertation ‘Women in Disasters: An Exploration into the Gender-Sensitivity of Disaster Evacuation Centres in the Fiji Islands’. lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

www.lse.ac.uk Jenny Park awarded inaugural Adeline Stuart-Watt Award - Grantham Research Institute on climate... Jenny Park's dissertation ‘Women in Disasters: An Exploration into the Gender-Sensitivity of Disaster Evacuation Centres in the Fiji Islands’ was recognised at a ceremony on 3 November.

Grantham LSE @GRI_LSE 6d

In this blog, Nicholas Stern and David Miliband offer five lessons from the last 20 years on the political blockages and other challenges that prevent governments from acting on the insight that tackling climate change is good for the economy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

blogs.lse.ac.uk The Stern Review on climate change, 20 years on | LSE British Politics 20 years ago the Stern Review on climate change argued that cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions made economic sense. That argument still stands today.

Grantham LSE @GRI_LSE Oct 30

We asked Noah Walker-Crawford to give us his thoughts on why so much climate action is being decided in courtrooms rather than at COPs. Does it mean the COP process is failing, and is there anything COP31 can do to reverse the trend?

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Grantham LSE @GRI_LSE Oct 29

“The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act?”

This year is the 20th anniversary of the Stern Review. Fiona Harvey has written about its impact in the @guardian

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www.theguardian.com The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act? |... The radical Stern report showed that a low-carbon future is also good economics. But it seems that capitalism needs a reminder, says Fiona Harvey, an environment editor at the Guardian

Grantham LSE @GRI_LSE Oct 27

Extreme weather can leave vulnerable economies facing another financial risk: currency depreciation.
This new policy insight explores how climate shocks affect hard-currency debt in emerging and developing economies.
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www.lse.ac.uk The climate–currency nexus: currency conversion as a means of reducing exposure to currency... This policy insight focuses on currency conversion as a means of reducing exposure to currency volatility in vulnerable economies in the aftermath of climate-related shocks.