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Planetary Crisis? Call an Economist! - Ep48: Nick Stern
Planetary Crisis? Call an Economist! - Ep48: Nick Stern
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Jun 30, 2021
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics.Professor Stern led the Grantham Research Institute since its establishment in 2008. Between 2013 and 2017 he was the President of the British Academy. His academic career took him all over the world: he held appointments at, inter alia, Oxford University, MIT, Collège de France, the Indian Statistical Institute and the People’s University of China in Beijing. Professor Stern was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.Apart from his academic career, he worked for international institutions like the World Bank and the EBRD and for the British government. In that capacity, he led the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in 2006, a pioneering work looking into long-term costs of climate change and long-term benefits of urgent and aggressive climate action.Professor Stern was knighted for services to economics in 2004, was made a cross-bench life peer in 2007 and appointed Companion of Honour for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change in 2017. Professor Stern holds 13 honorary degrees and numerous prizes. Official Biohttps://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/profile/nicholas-stern/Stern Review (2006)https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100407172811/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern_review_report.htmThe Investment Imperative for the G7 (June 2021)https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g7-summit-economic-recovery-investment-priority-by-nicholas-stern-2021-06G7 leadership for sustainable, resilient and inclusive economic recovery and growth - summary report (May 2021)https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/g7-leadership-for-sustainable-resilient-and-inclusive-economic-recovery-and-growth-summary-report/WHO Air Polluton datahttps://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change (2015)https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-are-we-waiting
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Jun 30, 2021
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