Climate change to shrink economies of rich, poor, hot and cold countries alike unless Paris Agreement holds

Study suggests that 7% of global GDP will disappear by 2100 as a result of business-as-usual carbon emissions – including over 10% of incomes in both Canada and the United States.

Cambridge University News | Aug. 19, 2019 | cambridge

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Tags: climate-change economics sustainability macroeconomic sustainable-earth

Cambridge historian and his family members announced as joint winners of one of the biggest cash prizes in world economics

A ‘radical’ plan by three members of the same family to boost UK growth has been named as one of the first winners of the £100,000 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Economics Prize, one of the world’s largest prizes in the discipline.

Cambridge University News | July 10, 2019 | cambridge

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Tags: economics growth