Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson
Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics | Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment (currently on sabbatical) |
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Born @ 321 ppm CO2
- Read our new report, based on expert roundtable with stakeholders from unions, local gov & gov agencies, academia, private sector, charitable sector, chartered professional bodies. Co-creating evidence-based, practical next steps to better protect workers from the effects of high temperatures
- New report by @profejzrobinson.bsky.social @shourodasgupta.bsky.social @drchowarth.bsky.social & @aliceleibian.bsky.social outlines practical next steps for better protecting UK workers against the effects of high temperatures www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonSuper excited (and slightly nervous) to be at at my first @ipcc.bsky.social Lead Authors’ meeting. We are starting our journey to synthesise and evaluate the latest scientific evidence for AR7. @profejzrobinson.bsky.social #CMCC #EIEE @granthamlse.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson🦏🐅 Are we living through a sixth mass extinction? Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.
- @dannyquah.bsky.social will be @lseid.bsky.social next week. I’m out of the country else would have been there.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonCoal-fired data centres at least sound a bit steampunk. Wood-fired data centres just sound deranged. finance.yahoo.com/news/drax-sh...
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"As a significant player on the international stage, the UK has both the opportunity and the responsibility to lead.” Professor Lord Nicholas Stern spoke with #RftW Magazine following the publication of The Growth Story of the 21st Century. 🩹 🌍 Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res... - Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonOn November 26th we're hosting a post-COP30 online event to reflect on the outcomes of the climate summit which took place in Belém, Brazil. Delegates who attended COP30 will offer their assessments of the challenges and achievements on the key issues, and look ahead to COP31.
- Congratulations to our wonderful @granthamlse.bsky.social colleague Dr Francisco de Melo Virissimo www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... Working on climate & ocean phenomena, & climate adaptation *Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists* www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-... @gsos-lse.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson“The memo from a ‘very influential person who controls a lot of money’ hinges on ‘inarguably a false binary’ between a world where everything is fine and ‘literally the end of the world,’ said @weatherwest.bsky.social, a climate scientist at UC ANR.”
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonA statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson"In this book, Lord Nicholas Stern articulates the incredible opportunity for global development enabled by climate action." — Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess. ➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson🎉"This book is most welcome at a time when climate policies are being denounced as being overly punitive by some... An absolute must-read for economic scholars and policy makers working on climate and on economic development." — Philippe Aghion, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonGood morning with good news: New solar plus storage in India is more than 25% cheaper than EXISTING coal plants. It's also much cheaper than new coal plants! Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh New coal costs $67-83/MWh ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
- Dr @shourodasgupta.bsky.social & I track the impact of increasing frequency of heatwaves and droughts on access to food (Indicator 1.4), compared to 1981–2010 baseline, estimated to have resulted in an additional 124 million people in 124 countries being food insecure. lnkd.in/e5j-5wZj for details
- 🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨 ⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy. ❤️🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck. Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonUK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 : Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn** Don't believe the wind power haters www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonSome out-of-this-world joy for your morning, with the @barenakedladies.com and Wexford Gleeks. youtu.be/AvAnfi8WpVE
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonOn November 5th we are hosting a public lecture with Lord Nicolas Stern. He will challenge the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonYes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers. It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization. Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonRead this latest blog post featuring GSoS Theme Lead, Joana Setzer ⬇️
- As politics falters, litigation is leading in the fight against climate change. Courts are shaping climate policy, enforcing human rights and challenging corporations. Joana Setzer Tiffanie Chan @granthamlse.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonLondon Consensus Book Talk 📢 📚 Tim Besley and Andrés Velasco will join Mine Senses and Pravin Krishna to discuss The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century. 🔻21st Oct 2025, 6pm, Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Washington, D.C. 🔻Register here: hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/...
- On #worldfoodday, our Climate Food (in)Security Lab @granthamlse.bsky.social & @gsos-lse.bsky.social profiles our impact lead Dr Lucy Kanya www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... And highlights why engaging in food insecurity in the context of climate change is so important www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
- The London Consensus is now out, and open access! Published by @lsepress.bsky.social Includes my chapter with Prof Chukwumerije Okereke on "Tackling climate change in low- and middle-income countries". Psyched to see it in print. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
- 💭 "A landmark publication” 💭 "The roadmap we need to build more inclusive and resilient economies" The London Consensus is out now #OpenAccess and is free to read and download from the LSE Press website. Access here: 🖇️ doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonWe're delighted to see our Co-Founder and Chair, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, recognised for his work as a leading environmentalist in The Independent Climate 100 List 2025.👏 @granthamlse.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social
- Super proud to have been part of the team. Take a read of what we have been up to at LSE's @gsos-lse.bsky.social Global School of Sustainability. Sustainability in Action! And defo worth following @gsos-lse.bsky.social (yes, of course I am biased!)
- Exciting opportunities to work with LSE's @gsos-lse.bsky.social Global School of Sustainability * Comms & Events Coordinator * Student Experience Officer * Assistant Prof in Biodiversity Economics, Dept of Geog & Env * Assistant Prof of Philosophy, Dept of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonGood morning with good news: An historic energy milestone is reached. Renewables globally produced more electricity than coal for the first time on record in the first half of 2025! How? Solar skyrocketed 31% Wind rose 7.7% Coal FELL in China & India! ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
- Always good to be reminded and to remind.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson7. Renewable energy investment dominates globally with $2.2 trillion, while fossil fuel investment flounders. The days of fossil fuels are over:
- ICYMI Global investment in energy likely to hit about $3.3 trillion (£2.4tn) this year More than $1tn of the total is still likely to flow into fossil fuels But double that amount – about $2.2tn – expected for low-carbon energy www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonGood morning with good news: EVs have ~11% energy loss, so "most of the energy that goes into the car ends up turning the wheels." Oil burning autos waste ~"80% of the energy that gets pumped into their gas tanks." Electrostate for the win! yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec... #energysky
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonA summary of our 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝘀𝗻𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁 report has been translated into Chinese, Korean, French and Portuguese. Download the translated versions here ⬇️
- Excellent news indeed. And for India's public health also. Less air pollution = fewer respiratory and other health problems associated with breathing polluted air. Check out @lancetcountdown.bsky.social work on air pollution and health co-benefits. lancetcountdown.org/explore-our-...
- Good morning with good news: India's power sector CO2 emissions fell for only the second time in 50 years, falling 1% in H1 2025, compared to H1 2024. They grew 10%/year from 2021-2023! Added clean generation surged 69% in H1 2025 to a record 25 GW. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind... #energysky
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonIt’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson🌳Join us on September 22nd to launch the LSE Green Skills Lab that will produce academic research on the labour market dynamics of the green and digital twin transition and the development and evaluation of industrial policy to achieve a Just Transition.
- My wonderful LSE colleague @gangashreedhar.bsky.social has joined #bluesky. Welcome!
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson"SUV loophole" allows heavier and more polluting cars, which cause disproportionate damage to roads & increased safety risk to pedestrians and cyclists, to escape with 20x less tax than other European countries This partly explains the surge in SUV sales in UK www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...
- "[Agrivoltaics] reduces irrigation needs, shields crops from heat stress, and stabilizes incomes by diversifying revenue streams for farmers. ... agrivoltaics can play a vital role in climate adaptation, making agriculture more resilient to unpredictable weather patterns"
- Agrivoltaics comes to India & goes global Farmer grows turmeric under PV. "My income has tripled, and I sleep peacefully without the stress of climate or crop failure" Sun Master pays him ~$1,200 annually per acre & $170/month to maintain the solar panels. www.bbc.com/news/article... #energysky
- Thank you Fondazione CMCC & @shourodasgupta.bsky.social for hosting first part of my sabbatical in Venice; @gsos-lse.bsky.social, @granthamlse.bsky.social for giving me this research time; & @eurostarnews.bsky.social & trenitalia for getting me there! Much loved cat could not come. #planesnottrains
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson📸 A milestone moment in Beijing: LSE’s Larry Kramer and @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social’s Li Luming launch the LSE–Tsinghua Research Sustainability Fund. 🔗 More info: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisi... #Sustainability #LSE #Tsinghua #GlobalResearch #AcademicPartnerships
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonThis is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson"Those living in the worst 10% of areas for PM2.5 pollution had a 27% higher risk of developing heart failure, compared with people in the least worst 10%. "The risk of having a stroke was 7% higher for people in the areas with the dirtiest air" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Always good to be reminded and to put things in perspective …
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson📢 The LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is hiring for an Assistant Professor with a focus on sustainability, and close collaboration with us! ⬇️
- ‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy! We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability Application deadline: 3 November 2025 More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonMoving gas plants - which set the price of electricity- out of the market and into a nationally controlled reserve, would take £5bn off the UK’s energy bills “Renewable energy is cheaper than gas but we’re not reaping all of the benefits clean power brings” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- @shourodasgupta.bsky.social & I wrote an @lseblogs.bsky.social on heat & the UK workforce. Links to our @granthamlse.bsky.social working paper www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... We are not used to heatwaves in the UK, insufficient adaptation, insufficient cooling, and worker health is being harmed.
- "Unlike countries that are used to high temperatures, the UK isn’t set up for the new climate reality." Read the latest LSE blog post from GSoS Acting Dean, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, and @shourodasgupta.bsky.social, on workers' health and climate change ⬇️ @lseblogs.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonOn the overwhelming public support for climate action: Great to see Ximeng Fang and Stefania Innocenti quoted on their research that sparked the 89% Project. (And globally, 69% of people are willing to give 1% of their income to help fix climate change.) @coveringclimatenow.org
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson🎉 We are delighted to welcome Professor Christian Kroll, leading scholar and advisor on sustainability and management strategy, to GSoS as a Visiting Professor in partnership with @granthamlse.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonThe Government's expert adviser says that investing to upgrade from fossil fuels will save the UK nearly £40 billion a year, and rising. Electrifying everything avoids all that heat lost burning gas and oil. Electrification isn’t a cost. It’s the smartest investment we can make. 🧵1️⃣ of 3️⃣
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonIt was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
- #EAAE European Association of Agricultural Economists. Celebrating 50 years just now in Bonn.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson💧The new Financing the Blue Economy programme #BluFinPlan with @granthamlse.bsky.social is unlocking sustainable blue finance to support coastal communities and protect vital ecosystems. Find out more ⬇️ www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... @aliceleibian.bsky.social @profejzrobinson.bsky.social
- Thanks @moritzfritschle.bsky.social. It was a real privilege to be invited to deliver the first of the #EAAE2025 #EAAE 2025 keynotes. I got to bring together two of my favourite topics, #foodsecurity and #sciencefiction. Bonus was to meet up with former @uniofreading.bsky.social colleagues.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonWelcome to our page! We are glad you are here. Stay tuned for more exciting news to come. In the meantime, check out our bio and follow us here and on our other social channels: climate.us
- Pleased to share that three colleagues from @granthamlse.bsky.social are involved in AR7: Dr Timo Leiter, WGII CLA “Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation ...”, Dr Denyse Dookie, WGII LA "Small Islands", & myself, WGIII LA Ch4 "Sustainable development & mitigation”
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- Another excellent @granthamlse.bsky.social policy brief, lead-authored by my colleague Denyse Dookie. "Entrepreneurs in South Africa are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events & there are differences in vulnerability between women & men" Excellent analysis & important policy implications
- Our new policy brief is based on findings from a survey of 202 female and male entrepreneurs in South Africa to assess gendered differences in climate information use and provide recommendations for government policymakers. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
- Really looking forward to reading this book. Excellent review in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Yes, our Climate Food (in)Security Lab, co-led by me and @shourodasgupta.bsky.social at CMCC, is live, www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... Other team members include Dr Lucy Kanya and policy fellow @aliceleibian.bsky.social
- Have you heard about our Food (In)Security Lab? It is a collaboration between @gsos-lse.bsky.social and @granthamlse.bsky.social, led by GSoS Acting Dean, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonOur new journal paper has hit the front pages and got wide coverage on the airwaves this morning. The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonExtreme heat kills - yet most heatwave warnings are based on air temperature alone, not how our bodies actually respond. Fantastic Nature piece from Ollie Jay and his team in Sydney calling for physiology based heat alerts to protect those most at risk. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonImportant discussion from @profejzrobinson.bsky.social and @shourodasgupta.bsky.social at #GCHS2025 on how extreme heat threatens UK workers’ health and productivity. Climate change is a workforce issue as much as an environmental one. 🔗 www.physoc.org/news_article...
- Delighted to have the opportunity to engage with @physoc.bsky.social at #GCHS2025 In the picture, my co-author @shourodasgupta.bsky.social, presenting our work on heat and the labourforce Plenty of scope for better adaptation and worker protection www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonThe best news!!! 😍
- Missing climate journalist Alec Luhn found alive - very pleased to see this news www.vg.no/nyheter/i/B0...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonWe asked four of the authors of our forthcoming book what the #LondonConsensus means to them and how it departs from the Washington Consensus 30 years ago. 📕 Coming soon with @lsepress.bsky.social #OpenAccess: press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... @theigc.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonI’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson“If we don’t take heat seriously, how does the economy keep functioning?” @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, GSoS Acting Dean and advocate for worker protection during extreme heat, asked at the Physiological Society 2025 Global Climate and Health Summit. Find out more ⬇️ @shourodasgupta.bsky.social
- Delighted to have the opportunity to engage with @physoc.bsky.social at #GCHS2025 In the picture, my co-author @shourodasgupta.bsky.social, presenting our work on heat and the labourforce Plenty of scope for better adaptation and worker protection www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
- “Do I protect my health or my income?” A question many gig workers face on hot days, as shared by @profejzrobinson.bsky.social (LSE) at #GCHS2025. Read more about the session discussing the harms of #HeatStress & ways to protect livelihoods, #health & the economy ⬇️
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonMotherfucking wind farms…
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonImagine introducing on the market a product that is several times more fatal for children. That wouldn't work in most sectors, but it barely raises an eyebrow in the car market. And soon most cars on European roads will be SUVs.
- Interesting-looking new study from the UK finding that being hit by an SUV (as compared to a regular car) "considerably" increases the risk of death for children, and even more so for young children doi.org/10.32866/001...
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonHow do we lead moral lives in an age of bullies? | Robert Reich
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson📢 For everyone interested in #sustainablefinance - check out the new podcast, "Financing a sustainable future". Episode one has already dropped! ➡️ www.fmg.ac.uk/isf/financin...
- Three graduations in one week! My eldest daughter, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social (could not be prouder!); former PhD student from @unirdg-phd.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social SAPD, Dr Jurgen Peci; & my first LSE graduation, congratulations to all those graduating from dept of geog & env.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonWe have responded to the ICJ advisory opinion on the legal obligations countries have to prevent climate change. Joana Setzer said “For the first time, the world’s highest court has made clear that states have a legal duty not only to prevent climate harm — but to fully repair it."
- "The UK government estimates technologies like battery storage systems ... could save the UK energy system up to £40 billion ... by 2050, ultimately reducing people’s energy bills." tinyurl.com/2p9r9vr3 Batteries reduce energy costs and increase energy independence ... Baffling.
- Reposted by Prof Elizabeth J Z RobinsonSweden is now entirely cage-free for laying hens, a feat achieved not with legislation but via consumer pressure and retailer pledges. Campaign group Project 1882 confirmed in June 2025 that the last 'enriched' cages were empty, freeing some 17 million birds. buff.ly/ytF8oMO #ShareGoodNewsToo
