Ben Groom
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Dragon Capital Chair of Biodiversity Economics. www.dragonchair.org.uk.
The Social Cost of Carbon by
@paulkelleher.net
. Beach reading this Easter. I thoroughly recommend. Crystallises some thoughts Iâve been having recently on the social discount rate, but helpful in so many other ways on the social cost of carbon. Congrats
@paulkelleher.net
6 days ago
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Niko Jaakkola
about 1 month ago
This is great news. Finland to restore marshlands, which will (1) act as an natural barrier to deter a Russian invasion, (2) be a carbon sink to slow down climate change, (3) protect biodiversity. Superb!
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BIOECON Conference #27 âEconomics, Finance and Nature Based Risksâ Call for submissions is now available. The conference is at St Johnâs, Cambridge Uni, 6th-8th of Sept 2026.
www.bioecon-network.org/pages/27th_2...
Keynotes: Pr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State) and Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE)
about 1 month ago
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Gernot Wagner
about 2 months ago
Some light Sunday reading to fill that post-Olympic void: "Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition" with Mark Freeman,
@bengroom.bsky.social
&
@frikknesje.bsky.social
Updated working paper:
gwagner.com/beliefs
TL;DR: both evidence & prior beliefs matter, a lot.
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Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition
by Mark Freeman, Ben Groom, Frikk Nesje, and Gernot Wagner
https://gwagner.com/beliefs
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Deadline in 2 weeks: 27th Feb 2026. HM Treasury Review of the Social Discount Rate: Survey. See below for details and links.
@granthamlse.bsky.social
,
@leepinstitute.bsky.social
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RIP Sly Dunbar. Loved this collaboration:
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I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
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2 months ago
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Hooray!
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2 months ago
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Phil Delacote
3 months ago
đ§° Resources for PhD students and young researchers The past few days, I have been collecting useful resources that might help younger researchers: - academic writing advice - data-management warnings - econometric tools and methods - and a few other things
sites.google.com/view/philipp...
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Philippe Delacote - Resources for PhD students
Some useful tools and sources of info for young (and older) research fellows in environmental and development economics. With great insights from Jean-Marie Baland, François Bareille, Pierre Beaucora...
https://sites.google.com/view/philippedelacote/phd-supervision/resources-for-phd-students
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Catherine Wolfram
2 months ago
Yes, EU CBAM pushing Indian steel producers toward greener production processes. I only wish people would stop referring to
#CBAM
as a tariff. Tariffs treat foreign and domestic producers differently, while a CBAM levels the playing field. More like a VAT.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...
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New EU carbon tariff pushes India toward green steel
Europeâs pioneering tax on polluting imports presents Indiaâs coal-reliant steelmakers with a choice: Decarbonize or risk losing customers.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/green-steel/new-eu-carbon-tariff-india-green-steel
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UK HM Treasury discount rate review. See link below. Weâd like responses before 27th Feb. See below.
@rff.org
@granthamlse.bsky.social
@leepinstitute.bsky.social
@cep-lse.bsky.social
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HM Treasury is requesting input into its Green Book Discount Rate Review, and we need your help. If you have an interest in Social Discounting, please complete the following survey:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
2)Â Forward this link to interested parties. Deadline: Feb 27th
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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New paper. Interesting idea.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change
Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02487-8
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New paper. Interesting idea.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change
Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02487-8
4 months ago
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Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.
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University of Exeter News
9 months ago
Researchers including Professor
@bengroom.bsky.social
are working to restore trust in carbon offsetting by demonstrating the more robust ways their impact can be measured.
@leepinstitute.bsky.social
@exeter.ac.uk
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Researchers point the way to restoring trust in carbon credits
More robust ways of measuring the impact of carbon credits can restore trust in offsetting schemes, a new study finds.
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/university-of-exeter-business-school/researchers-point-the-way-to-restoring-trust-in-carbon-credits/
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Phil Delacote
9 months ago
Many thanks to an amazing team of wonderful co-authors: S. Chabé-Ferret
@tse-fr.eu
A. Creti
@univdauphine.bsky.social
K. Duffy M. Elias
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
A. Guizar Coutiño
@ox.ac.uk
B. Filewod
@bengroom.bsky.social
A. Kontoleon G. Le Velly T. L'Horty A. Missirian T. A. P. West
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Phil Delacote
10 months ago
One last view over Bergen following a nice
#EAERE2025
conference. Always happy to meet friends and colleagues I seldom have the occasion to cross paths with. Including
@profejzrobinson.bsky.social
@bengroom.bsky.social
@elchinosauro.bsky.social
And many others
@eaere.bsky.social
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Tatyana Deryugina
10 months ago
"If âtwo-weeksâ means what it normally means, and as it has regularly meant for Ukraine, then the US is almost certainly going to stay out of the war."
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If Trump Will Not Join The War, What Then?
Hi All,
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/if-trump-will-not-join-the-war-what?r=p4fe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Tatyana Deryugina
10 months ago
I was recently asked âWhat is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?â My new blog post covers the answer.
#EconSky
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Advice to junior faculty â Tatyana Deryugina
Tatyana Deryugina
https://deryugina.com/advice-to-junior-faculty/
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE
10 months ago
Our latest working paper provides new insights into the economic value of the Congo Basin forests and how the supply of this value is distributed across categories of rightsholders, thereby linking values to the different groups who make management decisions about the forest.
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Valuing natural capital and its distribution in the Congo Basin forests - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
The authors of the study highlight the importance of understanding how natural capital is distributed across rightsholders â a key question for development policy and the design of natural capital finance in forested regions.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/valuing-natural-capital-and-its-distribution-in-the-congo-basin-forests/
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Manuel Linsenmeier
10 months ago
I ll present on Tuesday at 2 pm in the session âForests, land use, and economic developmentâ
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Listening to PM on BBC R4 today you would think that the Treasury Green Book is the source of all problems concerning levelling up, regional disparities of government investment and inequality writ large. The Green Book handles value for money. Not the lack of strategy by successive governments.
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Malin Wiese
11 months ago
@moritzdrupp.bsky.social
, my supervisor Martin HĂ€nsel and co-authors incl.
@bengroom.bsky.social
@climatefran.bsky.social
@frikknesje.bsky.social
@ctraeger.bsky.social
were recognized with the Frontiers Planet Prize for planetary health with a paper on the increasing value of nature
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Frontiers Planet Prize for Science Publication by Junior Professor Martin HĂ€nsel
A paper co-authored by Junior Professor Dr. Martin HĂ€nsel on the increasing value of nature has been awarded with the Frontiers Planet Prize. The world's leading science prize for planetary health ide...
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetail/artikel/frontiers-planet-prize-for-science-publication-on-increasing-value-of-nature-2025-05-27
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Stephen Jarvis
11 months ago
There are ways the grid operator can kind of manage this today, but it would happen much more directly if the prices in different parts of the country better reflected the supply/demand balance from hour-to-hour in each region. Thatâs the idea anyway.
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Kyle Meng
11 months ago
Thank you EDF for requesting this FOIA together the latest EPA GHG Inventory out. We may need to do the same for facility-level GHG emissions from EPA's GHG Reporting Program.
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EPA Releases U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory in Response to EDF FOIA Request
The annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory provides information about climate pollution. This year the Trump EPA failed to release it to the public.
https://www.edf.org/media/epa-releases-us-greenhouse-gas-inventory-response-edf-foia-request
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What self-respecting tree surgeon goes ahead with this unquestioningly? Perhaps linking
ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk
(ancient tree inventory) with upcoming jobs via the
@arbassociation.bsky.social
would be a good way of quickly raising red flags? Is this a new idea?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Enfield oak tree felled by Toby Carvery 'had hundreds of years to live' - BBC News
The ancient oak felled in north London was classified as a "fine specimen" last year, documents show.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8jwjx5kppo.amp
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Gernot Wagner
11 months ago
This editorial is worth a close read, and a course of action. Fight like our democracy depends on it, because it does.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
[gift link]
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Gernot Wagner
11 months ago
"It is to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects...yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man." Read, discuss, share. Don't ignore.
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Kyle Meng
12 months ago
On climate policy, all eyes are on California's reauthorization of its world-leading cap-and-trade program. Today, I had the privilege of testifying about the program and its revenue spending priorities before the CA assembly climate budget subcommittee. Start at 1:01:30.
#climatesky
#energysky
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Media on Demand | California State AssemblyBack to Top
https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-no-4-climate-crisis-resources-energy-and-transportation-20250430
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NBER
11 months ago
Carbon border adjustment mechanism policies reduce emissions leakage, boost domestic competitiveness and encourage global carbon pricing â without disproportionately harming lower-income countries from
@kclausing.bsky.social
, Colmer, Hsiao and
@cwolfram.bsky.social
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33723
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Amazing work
@bengroom.bsky.social
. Did we mention Ben works on the RENEW project? Just saying.
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Funny not funny.
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The XXVI Annual BIOECON Conference on "Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Solutions," taking place on 1-2 September 2025 at St. Johnâs College, Cambridge University. Call is here. SUBMIT!! @GRI_LSE @UniofExeterNews @EAERE_envecon
www.bioecon-network.org/pages/26th_2...
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BIOECON Deadline today!!! Submit your papers on the economics of biodiversity, ecosystem services and conservation. Itâs at St Johnâs, Cambridge Uni. August 31st to September 2nd. Below
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This happened. More to follow on the journey that culminated in the paper and how
@moritzdrupp.bsky.social
and Martin Hansel guided it through.
@leepinstitute.bsky.social
@universityofexeter.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Science journal paper co-authored by Institute researchers wins Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
paper co-authored by a team of researchers including the Instituteâs Frank Venmans and Ben Groom has been announced as one of nineteen winners of the Frontiers Planet Prize which aims to recognise âsc...
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/science-journal-paper-co-authored-by-institute-researchers-wins-frontiers-planet-prize-2025/
12 months ago
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Linus Mattauch
12 months ago
Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for
@jungeakademie.bsky.social
and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link đ)
www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl...
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This looks like a great opportunity :
www.bangor.ac.uk/sns/commonwe...
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Commonwealth Distance Scholarships
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/sns/commonwealth-scholarship-commission
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Michael Roberts
12 months ago
A classic paper by Ben Bernanke (from 1980!) seem especially salient today. Perhaps more than ever before. It was eventually published in QJE in 1983.
www.nber.org/papers/w0502
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Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w0502
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Tatyana Deryugina
12 months ago
Articles like these are total BS. Russia has been declaring "ceasefires" like these for years (including pre-full invasion), then not respecting them itself. These "ceasefires" are not a sign of anything.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Putin's Easter truce: Cause for scepticism or chance for peace?
Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of violating a 30-hour truce, but it comes as diplomatic efforts pick up, Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg writes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy70vj2eejzo
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Stephen Jarvis
12 months ago
Just under two weeks left for applications to this postdoc position. Come join us at LSE!
#econsky
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Gernot Wagner
12 months ago
Note that this is decidedly different from saying Trump can halt the low-carbon transition. He can't:
gwagner.com/policy-pendulum
But he can surely delay things, and hurt US competitiveness in the process. And the erratic nature of it all, of course, only hurts.
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The Climate Policy Pendulum
Although US President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans give climate advocates plenty to worry about, all hope is not lost. Clean-energy technologies still have decisive physical advantage...
https://gwagner.com/policy-pendulum
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
12 months ago
"Many of the worldâs largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."
apnews.com/article/ship...
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Major nations agree on first-ever global tax on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping
Many of the worldâs largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accou...
https://apnews.com/article/shipping-emissions-climate-change-98ff23ca4739d8b4fc5a8f941a7ca0c4
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Really good analysis. The basics are important.
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Kyle Meng
about 1 year ago
Aggregate US prices rise by 5%. Sectors with >8% US price increase are metals, clothing, electronics, food, chemicals, and other industrial products. /n
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Pam Herd
about 1 year ago
Just a reminder that there is no existing substitute for NIH in terms of biomedical research funding--anywhere in the world. These losses will be felt worldwide. And given spending as of the end of March, we're looking at an effective 60% cut to NIH funding.
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Knut Einar Rosendahl
about 1 year ago
PhD opportunity at the School of Economics and Business at
@uninmbu.bsky.social
Renewable Energy Economics
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD scholarship in renewable energy (277679) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Job title: PhD scholarship in renewable energy (277679), Employer: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277679/phd-scholarship-in-renewable-energy
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Tony Yates
about 1 year ago
Madness. These exports help fund our own students and funnel ÂŁ into the university towns and cities outside London. We should be looking to expand capacity to take in foreign students who would previously have chosen the US.
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Stefanie Stantcheva
about 1 year ago
One challenge for trade policy, is that the benefits to consumers (like lower prices) feel vague & abstractâit's hard to see what we'd lose without free trade. Job threats feel immediate, driving support for protectionism. More recent on views on tradeđ
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Kyle Meng
about 1 year ago
(1) Rapid GE trade modeling returns for April 2nd tariffs. We model: April 2nd tariffs + 25% on CAN/MEX imports + 20% on PRC imports + 25% on iron/steel/alum/cars. Fig. shows total tariff by country. Avg. is 20.4%, about 10X pre-Trump rates. What are US and foreign country impacts?
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The XXVI Annual BIOECON Conference on "Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Solutions," taking place on 1-2 September 2025 at St. Johnâs College, Cambridge University. Call is here. SUBMIT!! @GRI_LSE @UniofExeterNews @EAERE_envecon
www.bioecon-network.org/pages/26th_2...
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