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Cambridge experts on UK drought and climate change

16 Aug 2022

From pollinators to profits, food to fires, here's what Cambridge experts say about the impacts of water scarcity – and what it signals about our...

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Nature loss pushes nations towards 'bankruptcy'

23 Jun 2022

The first biodiversity-adjusted sovereign credit rating warns of looming national debt crises across 26 countries. Financial markets should use...

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Beyond GDP: Time to measure inclusive wealth and revolutionise economics

28 Apr 2022

Cambridge economists are at the forefront of a global movement to create new statistical methods that include vital components of prosperity – from...

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New Janeway Institute to transform economic research

19 Oct 2021

The new Janeway Institute will be conducting and disseminating research at the frontier of economics, according to founder and alumnus William...

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Women economists underrepresented ‘at every level’ in UK academia – report

13 Jul 2021

New research shows the gender gap in the teaching and study of economics is still dramatic and actually getting worse. Economists argue that this is...

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The first 'climate smart' sovereign credit ratings

18 Mar 2021

Cambridge economists add climate science to Standard & Poor’s global credit formula and find that 63 nations face downgrades by 2030 unless...

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Economic benefits of protecting nature now outweigh those of exploiting it

08 Mar 2021

The largest study of its kind finds that in most cases economic value is higher when habitats are conserved or restored, rather than converted to...

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Central Leeds during the first UK lockdown

First COVID-19 lockdown cost UK hospitality and high street £45 billion in turnover, researchers estimate

18 Feb 2021

However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each thanks to the coronavirus lockdown that began in March last year...

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Dasgupta Review: Nature’s value must be included in economics to preserve biodiversity

02 Feb 2021

Nature is a “blind spot” in economics that can no longer be ignored by the accounting systems that dictate national finances, according to a major...

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Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists

15 Dec 2020

The University helps the United Nations launch a new 'Ecosystem Accounting' framework: allowing governments to better include and reflect nature in...

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A lone walker in a shopping district of Leeds, UK, during lockdown.

No country ‘immune’ to COVID-19 economic shock, but Asian nations will bounce back faster

02 Dec 2020

Study uses 40 years of quarterly data to forecast a lengthy global recession resulting from coronavirus, with the manufacturing bases of China and...

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Iowa County Drought

Globalised economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse: study

26 Oct 2020

The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...

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