Ben Groom
@bengroom.bsky.social
Dragon Capital Chair of Biodiversity Economics. www.dragonchair.org.uk.
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...
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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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
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!
Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 5mo agoA Finnish government study, to be published in May, will outline a plan to “build” a “Verdant Wall” along #Finland’s Eastern border by #rewilding and restoring natural habitats, especially marshlands, as barriers to invasion. Win win win! #biodiversity #defence
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)
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
Ben Groom@bengroom.bsky.social · 7mo agoUK 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
RIP Sly Dunbar. Loved this collaboration: open.spotify.com/track/4QHfFz...
I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
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🧰 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...
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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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...
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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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
Ben Groom@bengroom.bsky.social · 7mo agoHM 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
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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New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.
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...
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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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
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
"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...
If Trump Will Not Join The War, What Then?
Hi All,
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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
Advice to junior faculty – Tatyana Deryugina
Tatyana Deryugina
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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...
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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I ll present on Tuesday at 2 pm in the session “Forests, land use, and economic development”
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.
@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
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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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.
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.
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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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...
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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