Ward, Bob

Number of items: 80.
Asia Centre
  • Rockström, Johan, Brasseur, Guy, Hoskins, Brian, Lucht, Wolfgang, Schellnhuber, John, Kabat, Pavel, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Gong, Peng, Schlosser, Peter & Máñez Costa, Maria et al (2014). Climate change: the necessary, the possible and the desirable Earth League climate statement on the implications for climate policy from the 5th IPCC Assessment. Earth's Future, 2(12), 606-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000280
    • Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
  • Boyd, Rodney, Turner, Joe, Ward, Bob (2015). Intended nationally determined contributions: what are the implications for greenhouse gas emissions in 2030? (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Bowen, Alex, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2015). A cost-effective balance between taxes on fossil fuel pollution and support for cleaner alternatives.
  • Bassi, Samuela, Duffy, Chris, Gambhir, Ajay, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2015). Climate change priorities for the next UK Government. (Policy Brief). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). The emissions reduction commitments set out by the U.S. and China are welcome steps towards avoiding dangerous climate change.
  • Rockström, Johan, Brasseur, Guy, Hoskins, Brian, Lucht, Wolfgang, Schellnhuber, John, Kabat, Pavel, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Gong, Peng, Schlosser, Peter & Máñez Costa, Maria et al (2014). Climate change: the necessary, the possible and the desirable Earth League climate statement on the implications for climate policy from the 5th IPCC Assessment. Earth's Future, 2(12), 606-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000280
  • Bassi, Samuela, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2013). The climate change act: briefing note. (Briefing note). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bowen, Alex, Dietz, Simon, Zenghelis, Dimitri, Ward, Bob (2010). Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change.
    • Centre for Economic Performance
  • Zenghelis, Dimitri, Serin, Esin, Stern, Nicholas, Sivropoulos Valero, Anna, Van Reenen, John, Ward, Bob (2024). Boosting growth and productivity in the United Kingdom through investments in the sustainable economy. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Economics
  • Bian, Alice, Dikau, Simon, Miller, Hugh, Pierfederici, Roberta, Stern, Nicholas, Ward, Bob (2024). China’s role in accelerating the global energy transition through green supply chains and trade. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Zenghelis, Dimitri, Serin, Esin, Stern, Nicholas, Sivropoulos Valero, Anna, Van Reenen, John, Ward, Bob (2024). Boosting growth and productivity in the United Kingdom through investments in the sustainable economy. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Stern, Nicholas, Patel, I. G., Ward, Bob (2021). Covid-19, climate change, and the environment: a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient global recovery. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 375, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2405
  • Hepburn, Cameron, Qi, Ye, Stern, Nicholas, Ward, Bob, Xie, Chunping, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2021). Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ese.2021.100130 picture_as_pdf
    • Geography and Environment
  • Bowen, Alex, Dietz, Simon, Zenghelis, Dimitri, Ward, Bob (2010). Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change.
    • Grantham Research Institute
  • Nago Zeufack, Minette, Ward, Bob, Pokem, Dany, Rigaud, Kanta Kumari (2025). A fair deal for the sustainable development of the Congo Basin countries and the protection of the rainforest. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/researchonline.lse.ac.uk.00137090
  • Ward, Bob (2025). Evidence submission and comments on the London Plan consultation. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Sethi, Pallavi, Ward, Bob (17 June 2024) Reform UK’s climate denial undermines democracy. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Brandmayr, Caterina, Bird, Jenny, Jennings, Neil, Gilbert, Alyssa, Ward, Bob, Burke, Josh, Mercer, Leo, Serin, Esin (2024). General Election 2024: climate change priorities for the next UK government. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Shuckburgh, Emily, Ward, Bob (2024). Open letter to leaders of the UK political parties - June 2024. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment,
  • Ward, Bob (17 April 2024) Addressing misinformation at source - why I choose to appear on GB News. Impact of Social Sciences Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Howarth, Candice, Mcloughlin, Niall, Armstrong, Andrea, Murtagh, Ellie, Mehryar, Sara, Beswick, Anna, Ward, Bob, Ravishankar, Srinidhi, Stuart-Watt, Adeline (2024). Turning up the heat: learning from the summer 2022 heatwaves in England to inform UK policy on extreme heat. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bian, Alice, Dikau, Simon, Miller, Hugh, Pierfederici, Roberta, Stern, Nicholas, Ward, Bob (2024). China’s role in accelerating the global energy transition through green supply chains and trade. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Zenghelis, Dimitri, Serin, Esin, Stern, Nicholas, Sivropoulos Valero, Anna, Van Reenen, John, Ward, Bob (2024). Boosting growth and productivity in the United Kingdom through investments in the sustainable economy. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Serin, Esin, Ward, Bob (21 April 2023) Do the government's plans to reach net zero add up? British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (20 June 2022) Rectifying the incompatibility between the UK’s energy and climate strategies. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (1 November 2021) There is no planet B: tackling climate change demands a sustainable, inclusive recovery from COVID. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Stern, Nicholas, Patel, I. G., Ward, Bob (2021). Covid-19, climate change, and the environment: a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient global recovery. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 375, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2405
  • Hepburn, Cameron, Qi, Ye, Stern, Nicholas, Ward, Bob, Xie, Chunping, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2021). Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ese.2021.100130 picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (15 August 2021) Book review: Unsettled: what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters by Steve Koonin. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (12 August 2021) The IPCC report is a grim reminder that the US will not be spared the extreme effects of climate change. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (26 March 2021) Building back better Biden has made a promising start with an ambitious international and domestic program to tackle climate change. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Stoerk, Thomas, Wagner, Gernot, Ward, Robert E. T. (2018). Recommendations for improving the treatment of risk and uncertainty in economic estimates of climate impacts in the Sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rey005
  • Ward, Bob (2017). President Trump’s speech on the Paris Agreement was full of confusion and bogus claims.
  • Ward, Bob (2017). The Trump administration’s arguments for withdrawing from the Paris agreement are based on flawed assumptions.
  • Ward, Bob (2017). Theresa May should press President Trump about his actions on climate change.
  • Ward, Bob (2016). What energy and climate change policies can we expect from President Trump?
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2016). Comment on ‘impact of current climate proposals’. Global Policy, 7(1), 125-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12316
  • Ward, Bob (2015). Letter to Congressman Lamar Smith in regard to the testimony given by Dr Bjorn Lomborg to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Bassi, Samuela, Duffy, Chris, Fankhauser, Samuel, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2015). Consultation response: ‘reforming the business energy efficiency tax landscape’. (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Boyd, Rodney, Turner, Joe, Ward, Bob (2015). Intended nationally determined contributions: what are the implications for greenhouse gas emissions in 2030? (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Boyd, Rodney, Turner, Joe, Ward, Bob (2015). Tracking intended nationally determined contributions: what are the implications for greenhouse gas emissions in 2030? (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Bowen, Alex, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2015). A cost-effective balance between taxes on fossil fuel pollution and support for cleaner alternatives.
  • Boyd, Rodney, Stern, Nicholas, Ward, Bob (2015). What will global annual emissions of greenhouse gases be in 2030, and will they be consistent with avoiding global warming of more than 2°C? (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Bassi, Samuela, Duffy, Chris, Gambhir, Ajay, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2015). Climate change priorities for the next UK Government. (Policy Brief). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bassi, Samuela, Duffy, Chris, Fankhauser, Samuel, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri, Hirst, Neil (2014). Submission to inquiry on ‘Environmental risks of fracking’ by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Bassi, Samuela, Duffy, Chris, Fankhauser, Samuel, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri, Gambhir, Ajay (2014). Submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change on ‘ Fuelling the debate: Committee successes and future challenges’. (Policy Paper). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). The emissions reduction commitments set out by the U.S. and China are welcome steps towards avoiding dangerous climate change.
  • Rockström, Johan, Brasseur, Guy, Hoskins, Brian, Lucht, Wolfgang, Schellnhuber, John, Kabat, Pavel, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Gong, Peng, Schlosser, Peter & Máñez Costa, Maria et al (2014). Climate change: the necessary, the possible and the desirable Earth League climate statement on the implications for climate policy from the 5th IPCC Assessment. Earth's Future, 2(12), 606-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000280
  • Bassi, Samuela, Ward, Bob, Zenghelis, Dimitri (2013). The climate change act: briefing note. (Briefing note). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ward, Bob (2012). The Government’s financial support for fossil fuel companies is being overlooked.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2012). Recycling the myth that global warming ‘stopped in the mid-1990s’.
  • Ward, Bob (2012). Critics of the Stern Review present both a case of bad economics and fundamentally flawed science.
  • Ward, Bob, Gough, Ian, Less, Simon, Gross, Robert, Timms, Dave, Calel, Raphael, Dechezlepretre, Antoine (2012). Debating environmental policy. (British politics and policy at LSE ecollections). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ward, Bob (2012). The BBC is sacrificing objectivity for impartiality in its coverage of climate change.
  • Ranger, Nicola, Gohar, L. K., Lowe, J. A., Raper, S. C. B., Bowen, Alex, Ward, Robert E. T. (2012). Is it possible to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C? Climatic Change, 111(3-4), 973-981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0414-8
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2012). Self-regulation is not working to keep British media factual about climate change.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Is climate science too trendy for school lessons?
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). An echo chamber of climate change denial.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Climate pragmatism or climate illusion.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). The Daily Mail owners buy climate change, so why doesn’t the paper?
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Climate change education can still be part of a slimmed-down curriculum.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). America’s climate choice: put up or shut up.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Why science is a vote winner.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Lord Lawson’s incredible complacency on climate change.
  • Ranger, Nicola, Gohar, Laila, Lowe, Jason, Bowen, Alex, Ward, Robert E. T. (2010). Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: is it possible to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C? (Policy Brief). The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Ward, Bob (2010). Communicating climate change. Weather, 65(11), 309-310. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.683
  • Bowen, Alex, Dietz, Simon, Zenghelis, Dimitri, Ward, Bob (2010). Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2010). Comment: ‘knock knock: where is the evidence for dangerous human-caused global warming?’ by Robert M. Carter. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment 28). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2009). Climate change, the public, and the media in the UK: a watershed moment. In Boyce, T. & Lewis, J. (Eds.), Climate Change and the Media: Global Crises and the Media (pp. 59-64). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Ward, Robert E. T., Fong, Joann, Jones, Bernard Eric Michal, Casselton, Lorna Ann, Cox, Stephen James (2009). How national science academies in developed countries can assist development in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 46(1/2), 9-26. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.2009.022672
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2008). Good and bad practice in the communication of uncertainties associated with the relationship between climate change and weather-related natural disasters. In Liverman, D. G. E., Pereira, C. P. G. & Marker, B. (Eds.), Communicating Environmental Geoscience (pp. 117-118). Geological Society of London.
  • Ward, Robert E. T., Herweijer, Celine, Ranger, Nicola, Muir-Wood, Robert (2008). The role of insurers in promoting adaptation to the impacts of climate change. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 33(1), 133-139. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510153
  • Ward, Robert E. T., Muir-Wood, R., Grossi, P. (2007). Flood risk in New Orleans: implications for future management. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9,
    • India Observatory
  • Rockström, Johan, Brasseur, Guy, Hoskins, Brian, Lucht, Wolfgang, Schellnhuber, John, Kabat, Pavel, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Gong, Peng, Schlosser, Peter & Máñez Costa, Maria et al (2014). Climate change: the necessary, the possible and the desirable Earth League climate statement on the implications for climate policy from the 5th IPCC Assessment. Earth's Future, 2(12), 606-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000280
    • LSE
  • Ward, Bob (15 August 2021) Book review: Unsettled: what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters by Steve Koonin. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (12 August 2021) The IPCC report is a grim reminder that the US will not be spared the extreme effects of climate change. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (26 March 2021) Building back better Biden has made a promising start with an ambitious international and domestic program to tackle climate change. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (2018). A silent public health emergency: hundreds are dying from ignorance of heatwave risks. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (2018). Do male climate change 'sceptics' have a problem with women?
  • Ward, Bob (2017). The extension and successes of California's cap-and-trade programme suggests the future of US climate policy may not be so bleak.
  • Ward, Bob (2017). Universities under purdah: maintaining impartiality or restricting academic freedom?
  • Ward, Bob (2016). The US and China’s ratification of the Paris climate agreement puts pressure on the EU to quickly do the same.
  • Ward, Bob (2016). Why the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement is bad news for Donald Trump.
  • Ward, Bob (2016). Is there a link between climate change ‘sceptics’ and Brexit supporters?
  • Ward, Bob (2016). Miscommunicating science: the media and climate change.
  • Ward, Bob (2016). What next for the Greens? The Green Party after Natalie Bennett.
  • Ward, Bob (1 October 2015) Flawed analysis of the economics of climate change. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Ward, Bob (2015). New figures published by the IMF show the UK provides more subsidies for fossil fuels than renewables.
  • Ward, Bob (2015). Congress is targeting the academic freedom of climate change scholars that they do not agree with.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). Owen Paterson’s controversial speech to climate change sceptics looks to be riddled with inaccuracies.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). Another campaign that makes inaccurate and misleading claims about the science of climate change has been thoroughly discredited.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). Refusing to disseminate statements from climate change ‘sceptics’ that are inaccurate and misleading is not censorship.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). The most significant impact of the EPA’s new fossil fuel regulations may be to persuade China of Barack Obama’s commitment to tackling climate change despite Congressional inaction.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). A study with erroneous claims about the impacts of global warming has finally been corrected.
  • Ward, Bob (2014). The costs of the UK storms and floods in context.
  • Ward, Bob (2013). Is the Global Warming Policy Foundation complying with Charity Commission rules?
  • Ward, Bob (2012). The United States needs to do more to reduce emissions and be a true leader in international climate policy.
    • Public Policy Group
  • Ward, Bob (2016). Misinformation on climate change policy will get us nowhere: a response to Bjorn Lomborg.
  • Ward, Bob, Gough, Ian, Less, Simon, Gross, Robert, Timms, Dave, Calel, Raphael, Dechezlepretre, Antoine (2012). Debating environmental policy. (British politics and policy at LSE ecollections). London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • STICERD
  • Rockström, Johan, Brasseur, Guy, Hoskins, Brian, Lucht, Wolfgang, Schellnhuber, John, Kabat, Pavel, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Gong, Peng, Schlosser, Peter & Máñez Costa, Maria et al (2014). Climate change: the necessary, the possible and the desirable Earth League climate statement on the implications for climate policy from the 5th IPCC Assessment. Earth's Future, 2(12), 606-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000280
    • Sociology
  • Stern, Nicholas, Patel, I. G., Ward, Bob (2021). Covid-19, climate change, and the environment: a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient global recovery. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 375, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2405