Michael Jacobs
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Welcome

Welcome to michaeljacobs.org.  Here you'll find information on my current activities and some of the things I’ve done in the past.

I am principally based now at two academic centres:
the Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy at University College London and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, at both of which I am a Visiting Professor.  I am also a consultant adviser to the climate change programme of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).

At the Grantham Research Institute and with CIFF I’m working on international and European climate change and economic policy and retain a close interest in energy and climate policy in the UK. 

From my UCL base I’m researching and writing about various themes in social democratic and progressive political thought and continue to observe and comment on British politics.

The site includes my biographical details and a list of my writing and publications, recent and older.

I’m always grateful to receive feedback and comments, and information on interesting ideas and initiatives in my fields.  My contact details are also here.   

Michael Jacobs


News

Forthcoming speaking events

Is global warming melting the Himalayan glaciers?... and other climate questions
Guardian Open Weekend, 25 March 2012  More

 Recent articles and papers
 
Deadline 2015
Nature  12 January 2012  (reprinted here)

What Durban revealed about climate's shifting allegiances
Inside Story  14 December 2011

Hope at last in Durban
The Guardian  11 December 2011

UN talks see 'delayer countries' throw away the 2C goal  The Guardian  1 December 2011

Can Durban deliver?  Inside Story
and Huffington Post  29 November 2011

The practical politics of wellbeing
New Economics Foundation pamphlet
  2 November 2011

EU economy - black hole or green growth? Comment on Martin Wolf's Economists' Blog
Financial Times
28 October 2011

Tax can be used to tackle climate change Interview in International Tax Review
1 October 2011

Recent speaking events

The green moment? The crises of capitalism and the response of progressive politics
University College London public lecture
  26 January 2012  More


Speaking events and writing in 2010-11

can be found here
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