Small island developing states are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Lots written on existential threats from sea level rise. In the 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social #SIDS report, we highlight the food security challenge: inc. high import dependency & increasingly disrupted supply chains

Launch of the SIDS @lancetcountdown.bsky.social 2025 report. Findings from 28 indicators developed by over 100 leading researchers. Providing key evidence from small islands at the frontline of climate change impacts. 16 July 2026 🔗 Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Protected should mean protected. Across Europe, Marine Protected Areas are meant to safeguard some of our most important marine ecosystems. Yet destructive bottom trawling continues in many of them. Learn more about what the The MPA Legal Coalition is doing about it. 👉 mpa-legal-coalition.org

#TrainsNotPlanes London to Lisbon and back for @eaere.bsky.social #wcere2026 feels particularly challenging just now! In part because the extreme heat seems to be following me as I head south. Trains, buses, boats ...

We are launching The Context Summer edition in the next couple of weeks and we’ve got some big names in it. Vince Cable, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, @andrewdwyer.bsky.social, Adel Darwish, Nishiha Jasper David, Pelle Neroth Taylor and many more. We are also looking for ads for the next issue!

Europe is warming at a rate that’s more than double the pace of warming worldwide since the mid-1990s, due to melting Arctic sea ice, reduced pollution-related aerosols, and less snow cover. These changes are also altering weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense heat waves.

There is a proliferation of SUVs - not only are they more dangerous for pedestrians in crash but they emit more particle pollution from their fuel & their heavy weight means more dangerous brake & tyre particulate waste plus prevalence of pavement parking forcing pedestrians onto the rd…

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have already made every summer and every heatwave hotter than they would have been in a world without those emissions. Imagine if the @metoffice.gov.uk were brave enough to say something like that to the media every heatwave?

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

#TrainsNotPlanes if you can, get you from London to Copenhagen in a day. I spent the following day exploring the city, then the next morning straight up to @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, for the 32nd Ulvon Environmental Economics conference. Surströmming. Sunset 11pm. Midsommar eve tomorrow!

Delighted to be giving keynote at 32nd Ulvön Environmental Economics Conference, Umea. Midsommar in northern Sweden! Long train journey to get there means lots of writing time. First leg London-Brussels. If German trains are behaving, I'll be in Copenhagen late evening. #TrainsNotPlanes if you can.

Congrats to @aliceleibian.bsky.social, @nikoh8.bsky.social, Maxine Gibb, our Philippines colleagues Cristobal Caeyetano, and Lota Creencia. @granthamlse.bsky.social policy report out today. Funding to protecting mangroves and the livelihoods of those dependent on mangroves.

David Shukman (former BBC now @granthamlse.bsky.social) does a great job in his new book (The Response @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) of both making you very alarmed about the future, but also somehow less helpless. Our latest #LSEFutureProof video with him explores the risks of urban flooding.

So many positives about #TrainsNotPlanes - time to power through the to do list, write uninterrupted, and post. New @granthamlse.bsky.social working paper, led by Niko Howai, with @aliceleibian.bsky.social, Arnica De Guzman-Mortillero, & me. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... Mangrove livelihoods, DCE

Today the @thecccuk.bsky.social's "A Well-Adapted UK report" was released this morninglaunched. I chaired the CCRA4 Economics Advisory Group, and in parallel CCC published our report on the Economics of Systemic Risk In Climate Change Adaptation. www.ukclimaterisk.org/publications...

Care about #climatechange? You should probably care about this: Nils Pratley: "BP has fresh faces in the boardroom and a rigged strategy: it’s pivoting back to oil and gas and away from its low-carbon assets in an attempt to improve a weak share price."

Part of my @countdowneurope.bsky.social contribution w/ @shourodasgupta.bsky.social. Tracking temperature & labour supply over time in high exposure sectors (e.g. ag, construction). Higher temperatures associated with lower labour supply in Southern Europe. Yet more #climatechange implications.

Access to sufficient nutritious food is already made harder by climate change, & will get worse in the future. Agrifood systems account for approx 1/3 GHG emissions, so we need a rapid transition to low carbon diets plus greater efforts to adapt & build resilience. @countdowneurope.bsky.social

‪ #trainsnotplanes harder than it should be www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our study into Reform led councils dismantling the fight against climate change is referenced in this article about Lincolnshire residents dealing with floods.

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

We're excited to announce this free, public event to celebrate the 80th birthday of GSoS Chair, Nicholas Stern... on 🌍#EarthDay no less! 🎟️ The ticket line will open on 14 April!

Environmental levies fall disproportionately on electricity bills rather than gas bills, so electricity is artificially expensive relative to gas. In this commentary, Shefali Khanna and John Cui argue it's time to reform energy bill structure.

Scientific and legal communities often use similar words differently. Research Fellow Noah Walker-Crawford was part of the team that created a glossary to clarify the scientific concepts that frequently arise in climate litigation. @nyulaw.bsky.social

We’re launching a new National Heat Risk Commission, chaired by Emma Howard Boyd to investigate how to improve efforts across the UK to tackle the wide-ranging impacts of high temperatures www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Marginal pricing is the "worst approach to clearing markets apart from all the others", Jon Ferris at LCP tells me

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

Very pleased to be part of one of the teams, with @granthamlse.bsky.social's @aliceleibian.bsky.social, our project is looking at "Strengthening the Resilience of Food Supply Chains Through International Cooperation", focusing on the climate-food-health nexus.

👏 Our warmest congratulations to GSoS Co-founder Lei Zhang on receiving the Energy Institute’s 2026 President’s Award!

Read our new report, based on expert roundtable with stakeholders from unions, local gov & gov agencies, academia, private sector, charitable sector, chartered professional bodies. Co-creating evidence-based, practical next steps to better protect workers from the effects of high temperatures

Super excited (and slightly nervous) to be at at my first @ipcc.bsky.social Lead Authors’ meeting. We are starting our journey to synthesise and evaluate the latest scientific evidence for AR7. @profejzrobinson.bsky.social #CMCC #EIEE @granthamlse.bsky.social

🦏🐅 Are we living through a sixth mass extinction? Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.

@dannyquah.bsky.social will be @lseid.bsky.social next week. I’m out of the country else would have been there.

Coal-fired data centres at least sound a bit steampunk. Wood-fired data centres just sound deranged. finance.yahoo.com/news/drax-sh...

"As a significant player on the international stage, the UK has both the opportunity and the responsibility to lead.” Professor Lord Nicholas Stern spoke with #RftW Magazine following the publication of The Growth Story of the 21st Century. 🩹 🌍 Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

On November 26th we're hosting a post-COP30 online event to reflect on the outcomes of the climate summit which took place in Belém, Brazil. Delegates who attended COP30 will offer their assessments of the challenges and achievements on the key issues, and look ahead to COP31.

Congratulations to our wonderful @granthamlse.bsky.social colleague Dr Francisco de Melo Virissimo www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... Working on climate & ocean phenomena, & climate adaptation *Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists* www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-... @gsos-lse.bsky.social

“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 ⬇️