“The memo from a ‘very influential person who controls a lot of money’ hinges on ‘inarguably a false binary’ between a world where everything is fine and ‘literally the end of the world,’ said @weatherwest.bsky.social, a climate scientist at UC ANR.”

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

"In this book, Lord Nicholas Stern articulates the incredible opportunity for global development enabled by climate action." — Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess. ➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...

🎉"This book is most welcome at a time when climate policies are being denounced as being overly punitive by some... An absolute must-read for economic scholars and policy makers working on climate and on economic development." — Philippe Aghion, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Good morning with good news: New solar plus storage in India is more than 25% cheaper than EXISTING coal plants. It's also much cheaper than new coal plants! Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh New coal costs $67-83/MWh ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

Dr @shourodasgupta.bsky.social & I track the impact of increasing frequency of heatwaves and droughts on access to food (Indicator 1.4), compared to 1981–2010 baseline, estimated to have resulted in an additional 124 million people in 124 countries being food insecure. lnkd.in/e5j-5wZj for details

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 : Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn** Don't believe the wind power haters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some out-of-this-world joy for your morning, with the @barenakedladies.com and Wexford Gleeks. youtu.be/AvAnfi8WpVE

On November 5th we are hosting a public lecture with Lord Nicolas Stern. He will challenge the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Yes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers. It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization. Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.

Read this latest blog post featuring GSoS Theme Lead, Joana Setzer ⬇️

London Consensus Book Talk 📢 📚 Tim Besley and Andrés Velasco will join Mine Senses and Pravin Krishna to discuss The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century. 🔻21st Oct 2025, 6pm, Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Washington, D.C. 🔻Register here: hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/...

On #worldfoodday, our Climate Food (in)Security Lab @granthamlse.bsky.social & @gsos-lse.bsky.social profiles our impact lead Dr Lucy Kanya www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... And highlights why engaging in food insecurity in the context of climate change is so important www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

The London Consensus is now out, and open access! Published by @lsepress.bsky.social Includes my chapter with Prof Chukwumerije Okereke on "Tackling climate change in low- and middle-income countries". Psyched to see it in print. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

We're delighted to see our Co-Founder and Chair, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, recognised for his work as a leading environmentalist in The Independent Climate 100 List 2025.👏 @granthamlse.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social

Super proud to have been part of the team. Take a read of what we have been up to at LSE's @gsos-lse.bsky.social Global School of Sustainability. Sustainability in Action! And defo worth following @gsos-lse.bsky.social (yes, of course I am biased!)

Exciting opportunities to work with LSE's @gsos-lse.bsky.social Global School of Sustainability * Comms & Events Coordinator * Student Experience Officer * Assistant Prof in Biodiversity Economics, Dept of Geog & Env * Assistant Prof of Philosophy, Dept of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Good morning with good news: An historic energy milestone is reached. Renewables globally produced more electricity than coal for the first time on record in the first half of 2025! How? Solar skyrocketed 31% Wind rose 7.7% Coal FELL in China & India! ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

Always good to be reminded and to remind.

7. Renewable energy investment dominates globally with $2.2 trillion, while fossil fuel investment flounders. The days of fossil fuels are over:

"Two million people evacuated" Background: 12-month running mean heating above preindustrial (Sep 2024-Aug 2025) +1.52ºC 425.65 CO2 ppm (2025 to date) www.theguardian.com/... #Ragasa

Good morning with good news: EVs have ~11% energy loss, so "most of the energy that goes into the car ends up turning the wheels." Oil burning autos waste ~"80% of the energy that gets pumped into their gas tanks." Electrostate for the win! yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec... #energysky

A summary of our 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝘀𝗻𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁 report has been translated into Chinese, Korean, French and Portuguese. Download the translated versions here ⬇️

Excellent news indeed. And for India's public health also. Less air pollution = fewer respiratory and other health problems associated with breathing polluted air. Check out @lancetcountdown.bsky.social work on air pollution and health co-benefits. lancetcountdown.org/explore-our-...

It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.

🌳Join us on September 22nd to launch the LSE Green Skills Lab that will produce academic research on the labour market dynamics of the green and digital twin transition and the development and evaluation of industrial policy to achieve a Just Transition.

My wonderful LSE colleague @gangashreedhar.bsky.social has joined #bluesky. Welcome!

"SUV loophole" allows heavier and more polluting cars, which cause disproportionate damage to roads & increased safety risk to pedestrians and cyclists, to escape with 20x less tax than other European countries This partly explains the surge in SUV sales in UK www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

"[Agrivoltaics] reduces irrigation needs, shields crops from heat stress, and stabilizes incomes by diversifying revenue streams for farmers. ... agrivoltaics can play a vital role in climate adaptation, making agriculture more resilient to unpredictable weather patterns"

Thank you Fondazione CMCC & @shourodasgupta.bsky.social for hosting first part of my sabbatical in Venice; @gsos-lse.bsky.social, @granthamlse.bsky.social for giving me this research time; & @eurostarnews.bsky.social & trenitalia for getting me there! Much loved cat could not come. #planesnottrains

📸 A milestone moment in Beijing: LSE’s Larry Kramer and @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social’s Li Luming launch the LSE–Tsinghua Research Sustainability Fund. 🔗 More info: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisi... #Sustainability #LSE #Tsinghua #GlobalResearch #AcademicPartnerships

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Those living in the worst 10% of areas for PM2.5 pollution had a 27% higher risk of developing heart failure, compared with people in the least worst 10%. "The risk of having a stroke was 7% higher for people in the areas with the dirtiest air" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Always good to be reminded and to put things in perspective …

📢 The LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is hiring for an Assistant Professor with a focus on sustainability, and close collaboration with us! ⬇️

Moving gas plants - which set the price of electricity- out of the market and into a nationally controlled reserve, would take £5bn off the UK’s energy bills “Renewable energy is cheaper than gas but we’re not reaping all of the benefits clean power brings” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@shourodasgupta.bsky.social & I wrote an @lseblogs.bsky.social on heat & the UK workforce. Links to our @granthamlse.bsky.social working paper www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... We are not used to heatwaves in the UK, insufficient adaptation, insufficient cooling, and worker health is being harmed.

On the overwhelming public support for climate action: Great to see Ximeng Fang and Stefania Innocenti quoted on their research that sparked the 89% Project. (And globally, 69% of people are willing to give 1% of their income to help fix climate change.) @coveringclimatenow.org

🎉 We are delighted to welcome Professor Christian Kroll, leading scholar and advisor on sustainability and management strategy, to GSoS as a Visiting Professor in partnership with @granthamlse.bsky.social.

The Government's expert adviser says that investing to upgrade from fossil fuels will save the UK nearly £40 billion a year, and rising. Electrifying everything avoids all that heat lost burning gas and oil. Electrification isn’t a cost. It’s the smartest investment we can make. 🧵1️⃣ of 3️⃣

It was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

#EAAE European Association of Agricultural Economists. Celebrating 50 years just now in Bonn.

💧The new Financing the Blue Economy programme #BluFinPlan with @granthamlse.bsky.social is unlocking sustainable blue finance to support coastal communities and protect vital ecosystems. Find out more ⬇️ www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... @aliceleibian.bsky.social @profejzrobinson.bsky.social

Thanks @moritzfritschle.bsky.social. It was a real privilege to be invited to deliver the first of the #EAAE2025 #EAAE 2025 keynotes. I got to bring together two of my favourite topics, #foodsecurity and #sciencefiction. Bonus was to meet up with former @uniofreading.bsky.social colleagues.

Welcome to our page! We are glad you are here. Stay tuned for more exciting news to come. In the meantime, check out our bio and follow us here and on our other social channels: climate.us

Pleased to share that three colleagues from @granthamlse.bsky.social are involved in AR7: Dr Timo Leiter, WGII CLA “Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation ...”, Dr Denyse Dookie, WGII LA "Small Islands", & myself, WGIII LA Ch4 "Sustainable development & mitigation”

Another excellent @granthamlse.bsky.social policy brief, lead-authored by my colleague Denyse Dookie. "Entrepreneurs in South Africa are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events & there are differences in vulnerability between women & men" Excellent analysis & important policy implications

Really looking forward to reading this book. Excellent review in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes, our Climate Food (in)Security Lab, co-led by me and @shourodasgupta.bsky.social at CMCC, is live, www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... Other team members include Dr Lucy Kanya and policy fellow @aliceleibian.bsky.social