Hosted jointly by the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and chaired by Lord Nicholas Stern, the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) brings together some of the world’s leading researchers on climate change economics and policy, from many different disciplines.
CCCEP was established in 2008, and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Munich Re.
The Centre has two main policy objectives:
- advance climate change policy and increase the capacity of public and private decision makers to respond to one of the most critical challenges facing the world today
- support a ‘new global deal’ on climate change, through a formal state agreement and through a wider set of actions worldwide, by improving both the evidence base and the tools and implementation strategies available to decision makers.
The Centre has five interlinked research programmes:
- Developing climate science and economics
- Climate change governance for a new global deal
- Adaptation to climate change and human development
- Governments, markets and climate change mitigation
- The Munich Re Programme – evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector