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Econospeak on the Nobel Prize

October 5, 2009 by John Whitehead
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This is the second time I've read that environmental economists are in the running for the prize this year (Nobel speculations):This is probably dumb, but I am going to indulge in Nobel speculations. My main forecast is that there are two leading fields of economics that are way ahead of the rest for being the focus of this year's prize... [read more]

Nicholas Stern: “There are many parts of China where emissions intensity and emissions per capita are looking much like some of the richer countries.”

September 12, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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While Nicholas Stern, the world’s top climate economist, recently endorsed 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target,” he laid out two blunt messages about our current do-nothing strategy in a talk to students in Beijing’s People’s University: Stern warned that if the world continued to emit around the same levels of greenhouse... [read more]

Nicholas Stern, world’s top climate economist, endorses 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target.”

September 9, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The great environmental writer and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, is the guest blogger. Nicholas Stern is the most important climate economist in the world. After a stint as chief economist at the World Bank, he was asked by the government in his native Britain to conduct the most thorough review of the economics of global warming... [read more]

Copenhagen Climate Congress: 6 Key Messages

March 21, 2009 by Climatico Analysis
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The science that will direct the UN Climate Change Conference to be hosted by the Danish Government in December 2009 was discussed by more than 2500 delegates from almost 80 countries from 10-12 March 2009 in at the Copenhagen Climate Congress. The 3 days were jam-packed with 58 parallel focused discussion sessions, hundreds of poster... [read more]