An analysis published earlier this month in the journal Science deepened the gloom around whether global efforts are sufficient to cap warming fast enough. But it also elicited a more provocative complaint: that scientists, activists, policymakers and the public have…

Led by Michael Greenstone of the University of Chicago and the Climate Impact Lab, this LSE Environment Week event will discuss the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing in developing countries, as well as policy options to address them.

Solomon Hsiang, the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, agreed that trade might simultaneously make the world more resilient to these disasters and more vulnerable. In some…

“Getting the number right for the social cost of carbon is critical,” said Tamma Carleton with the Climate Impact Lab. “A value that is too low means that we face excessive climate change risks, but a value that is too…

“We’re seeing temperatures increase, we’re seeing heat waves become more common,” said Amir Jina, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and the Climate Impact Lab who researches how environmental change affects societal development.…