Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! The LSE's Grantham Research Institute coordinated a letter to the UK's Prime Minister from 100 British climate change researchers, about the potential threats and opportunities from Donald Trump's election as President of the United States.
It warns that the President-Elect's administration could "severely weaken climate change research and data-gathering undertaken by federal organisations in the United States". This would, according to the signatories to the letter, "diminish the provision of robust and rigorous evidence that is used by policy-makers and researchers around the world, including in the United Kingdom". The letter calls for the UK to "to respond decisively to these developments", and the signatories state: "We stand ready to support and assist our counterparts in the United States, as collaborators, co-authors and colleagues, in resisting any political attempts to prevent, hamper or interfere with vital research on climate change". You can find a copy of the letter here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/a-letter-to-the-british-prime-minister-from-100-members-of-the-climate-change-research-community/ I suspect there will be many more similar initiatives in the coming weeks and months. If you know of other such efforts, please send me a link by email and I'll be happy to compile a list and distribute it again. Best, Robert Dr Robert Falkner Associate Professor of International Relations Associate, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Academic Director, TRIUM Global EMBA London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Phone: (+44) (0)20 7955 6347 Fax: (+44) (0)20 7955 7446 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.robertfalkner.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/robert_falkner NEW PUBLICATIONS: Robert Falkner (2016) 'The Paris Agreement and the New Logic of International Climate Politics', International Affairs 92(5): 1107-25. Robert Falkner (2016) 'A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits and international legitimacy', Perspectives on Politics 14(1), 87-101. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
