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Ben Groom

@bengroom.bsky.social
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Dragon Capital Chair of Biodiversity Economics. www.dragonchair.org.uk.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Read the whole thing and then just curl up in a corner and cry, I guess
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Catching up on the Energy Institute blog. Last week, Max had a classic Auffhammerish post on the private versus social cost of diesel big rigs versus electric. Combines two of Max's favorite topics: big trucks and greenhouse gases, and a dollop of humor. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/d...
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Diesel Is Having a Moment
Almost-record-high diesel prices may make electric heavy duty trucks an even better deal! As you are probably not currently on a European vacation and reading this, or a truck driver refilling your…
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The Social Cost of Carbon by @paulkelleher.net. Beach reading this Easter. I thoroughly recommend. Crystallises some thoughts I’ve been having recently on the social discount rate, but helpful in so many other ways on the social cost of carbon. Congrats @paulkelleher.net
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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This is great news. Finland to restore marshlands, which will (1) act as an natural barrier to deter a Russian invasion, (2) be a carbon sink to slow down climate change, (3) protect biodiversity. Superb!
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
BIOECON Conference #27 “Economics, Finance and Nature Based Risks” Call for submissions is now available. The conference is at St John’s, Cambridge Uni, 6th-8th of Sept 2026. www.bioecon-network.org/pages/27th_2... Keynotes: Pr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State) and Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE)
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Deadline in 2 weeks: 27th Feb 2026. HM Treasury Review of the Social Discount Rate: Survey. See below for details and links. @granthamlse.bsky.social , @leepinstitute.bsky.social
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
RIP Sly Dunbar. Loved this collaboration: open.spotify.com/track/4QHfFz...
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I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hooray!
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Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🧰 Resources for PhD students and young researchers The past few days, I have been collecting useful resources that might help younger researchers: - academic writing advice - data-management warnings - econometric tools and methods - and a few other things sites.google.com/view/philipp...
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Philippe Delacote - Resources for PhD students
Some useful tools and sources of info for young (and older) research fellows in environmental and development economics. With great insights from Jean-Marie Baland, François Bareille, Pierre Beaucora...
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Catherine Wolfram @cwolfram.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Yes, EU CBAM pushing Indian steel producers toward greener production processes. I only wish people would stop referring to #CBAM as a tariff. Tariffs treat foreign and domestic producers differently, while a CBAM levels the playing field. More like a VAT. www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...
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New EU carbon tariff pushes India toward green steel
Europe’s pioneering tax on polluting imports presents India’s coal-reliant steelmakers with a choice: Decarbonize or risk losing customers.
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
UK HM Treasury discount rate review. See link below. We’d like responses before 27th Feb. See below. @rff.org @granthamlse.bsky.social @leepinstitute.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
HM Treasury is requesting input into its Green Book Discount Rate Review, and we need your help. If you have an interest in Social Discounting, please complete the following survey: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 2) Forward this link to interested parties. Deadline: Feb 27th
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change
Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change
Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Researchers including Professor @bengroom.bsky.social are working to restore trust in carbon offsetting by demonstrating the more robust ways their impact can be measured. @leepinstitute.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Researchers point the way to restoring trust in carbon credits
More robust ways of measuring the impact of carbon credits can restore trust in offsetting schemes, a new study finds.
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Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Many thanks to an amazing team of wonderful co-authors: S. Chabé-Ferret @tse-fr.eu A. Creti @univdauphine.bsky.social K. Duffy M. Elias @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social A. Guizar Coutiño @ox.ac.uk B. Filewod @bengroom.bsky.social A. Kontoleon G. Le Velly T. L'Horty A. Missirian T. A. P. West
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Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
One last view over Bergen following a nice #EAERE2025 conference. Always happy to meet friends and colleagues I seldom have the occasion to cross paths with. Including @profejzrobinson.bsky.social @bengroom.bsky.social @elchinosauro.bsky.social And many others @eaere.bsky.social
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"If “two-weeks” means what it normally means, and as it has regularly meant for Ukraine, then the US is almost certainly going to stay out of the war." open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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If Trump Will Not Join The War, What Then?
Hi All,
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?” My new blog post covers the answer. #EconSky
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Advice to junior faculty – Tatyana Deryugina
Tatyana Deryugina
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our latest working paper provides new insights into the economic value of the Congo Basin forests and how the supply of this value is distributed across categories of rightsholders, thereby linking values to the different groups who make management decisions about the forest. www.lse.ac.uk/granth...
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Valuing natural capital and its distribution in the Congo Basin forests - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
The authors of the study highlight the importance of understanding how natural capital is distributed across rightsholders — a key question for development policy and the design of natural capital finance in forested regions.
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Manuel Linsenmeier @mlinsenmeier.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I ll present on Tuesday at 2 pm in the session “Forests, land use, and economic development”
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Listening to PM on BBC R4 today you would think that the Treasury Green Book is the source of all problems concerning levelling up, regional disparities of government investment and inequality writ large. The Green Book handles value for money. Not the lack of strategy by successive governments.
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Malin Wiese @malinwiese.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@moritzdrupp.bsky.social, my supervisor Martin Hänsel and co-authors incl. @bengroom.bsky.social @climatefran.bsky.social @frikknesje.bsky.social @ctraeger.bsky.social were recognized with the Frontiers Planet Prize for planetary health with a paper on the increasing value of nature
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Frontiers Planet Prize for Science Publication by Junior Professor Martin Hänsel
A paper co-authored by Junior Professor Dr. Martin Hänsel on the increasing value of nature has been awarded with the Frontiers Planet Prize. The world's leading science prize for planetary health ide...
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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There are ways the grid operator can kind of manage this today, but it would happen much more directly if the prices in different parts of the country better reflected the supply/demand balance from hour-to-hour in each region. That’s the idea anyway.
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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 08/05/2025
Thank you EDF for requesting this FOIA together the latest EPA GHG Inventory out. We may need to do the same for facility-level GHG emissions from EPA's GHG Reporting Program.
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EPA Releases U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory in Response to EDF FOIA Request
The annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory provides information about climate pollution. This year the Trump EPA failed to release it to the public.
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
What self-respecting tree surgeon goes ahead with this unquestioningly? Perhaps linking ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk (ancient tree inventory) with upcoming jobs via the @arbassociation.bsky.social would be a good way of quickly raising red flags? Is this a new idea? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Enfield oak tree felled by Toby Carvery 'had hundreds of years to live' - BBC News
The ancient oak felled in north London was classified as a "fine specimen" last year, documents show.
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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 01/05/2025
On climate policy, all eyes are on California's reauthorization of its world-leading cap-and-trade program. Today, I had the privilege of testifying about the program and its revenue spending priorities before the CA assembly climate budget subcommittee. Start at 1:01:30. #climatesky #energysky
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Media on Demand | California State AssemblyBack to Top
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NBER @nber.org · 02/05/2025
Carbon border adjustment mechanism policies reduce emissions leakage, boost domestic competitiveness and encourage global carbon pricing — without disproportionately harming lower-income countries from @kclausing.bsky.social, Colmer, Hsiao and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w33723
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RENEWBiodiversity.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Amazing work @bengroom.bsky.social. Did we mention Ben works on the RENEW project? Just saying.
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Funny not funny.
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The XXVI Annual BIOECON Conference on "Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Solutions," taking place on 1-2 September 2025 at St. John’s College, Cambridge University. Call is here. SUBMIT!! @GRI_LSE @UniofExeterNews @EAERE_envecon www.bioecon-network.org/pages/26th_2...
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
BIOECON Deadline today!!! Submit your papers on the economics of biodiversity, ecosystem services and conservation. It’s at St John’s, Cambridge Uni. August 31st to September 2nd. Below
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This happened. More to follow on the journey that culminated in the paper and how @moritzdrupp.bsky.social and Martin Hansel guided it through. @leepinstitute.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Science journal paper co-authored by Institute researchers wins Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
paper co-authored by a team of researchers including the Institute’s Frank Venmans and Ben Groom has been announced as one of nineteen winners of the Frontiers Planet Prize which aims to recognise “sc...
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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for @jungeakademie.bsky.social and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link 👇) www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl...
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This looks like a great opportunity : www.bangor.ac.uk/sns/commonwe...
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Commonwealth Distance Scholarships
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Michael Roberts @mikejrob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A classic paper by Ben Bernanke (from 1980!) seem especially salient today. Perhaps more than ever before. It was eventually published in QJE in 1983. www.nber.org/papers/w0502
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Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Articles like these are total BS. Russia has been declaring "ceasefires" like these for years (including pre-full invasion), then not respecting them itself. These "ceasefires" are not a sign of anything. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Putin's Easter truce: Cause for scepticism or chance for peace?
Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of violating a 30-hour truce, but it comes as diplomatic efforts pick up, Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg writes.
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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Just under two weeks left for applications to this postdoc position. Come join us at LSE! #econsky
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...
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Major nations agree on first-ever global tax on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accou...
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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Really good analysis. The basics are important.
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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 10/04/2025
Aggregate US prices rise by 5%. Sectors with >8% US price increase are metals, clothing, electronics, food, chemicals, and other industrial products. /n
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just a reminder that there is no existing substitute for NIH in terms of biomedical research funding--anywhere in the world. These losses will be felt worldwide. And given spending as of the end of March, we're looking at an effective 60% cut to NIH funding.
Figure showing that ~90% of funding for biomedical research around the world comes from NIH.
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Knut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
PhD opportunity at the School of Economics and Business at @uninmbu.bsky.social Renewable Energy Economics www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD scholarship in renewable energy (277679) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Job title: PhD scholarship in renewable energy (277679), Employer: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Madness. These exports help fund our own students and funnel £ into the university towns and cities outside London. We should be looking to expand capacity to take in foreign students who would previously have chosen the US.
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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
One challenge for trade policy, is that the benefits to consumers (like lower prices) feel vague & abstract—it's hard to see what we'd lose without free trade. Job threats feel immediate, driving support for protectionism. More recent on views on trade👇
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