New LSE research finds AIs model may introduce gender bias in care decisions, affecting how social workers assess women’s physical and mental health.

This paper assesses the effectiveness of India’s largest ban on crop residue burning in order to deepen policymakers' understanding of CRB and the use of bans as a potential deterrent.

100x, a leading global impact initiative based at the London School of Economics, has unveiled its 2025/26 cohort of high-impact social ventures. Spanning both for-profit and nonprofit models, these ...

LSE is a social science university based in London with a global reach, named University of the Year 2025. And we are the people and ideas that shape the world. Read a short introduction to LSE.

A pristine beach in the Bahamas lined with coconut palms The vast majority of Britain’s extremely wealthy people would never leave the country for tax reasons, partly due to the stigma involved in ...

Many of the climate change impacts that the UK faces have the potential to create serious socioeconomic consequences. This report and accompanying policy brief provide improved estimates of the likely ...

Actual investment performance on key climate priorities in emerging markets and developing countries has stalled. This second report from Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance focuses ...

Photo: The Supreme Court of the Netherlands/Kaan Architechten. In 2019, the Urgenda Foundation, a Dutch environmental group, and 900 Dutch citizens successfully sued the State of the Netherlands, ...

This report reviews key global developments in climate change litigation during 2023, and provides numerical analysis and a qualitative assessment of the trends and themes in the types of cases filed.

Bangladesh is highly prone to flooding because of its location in the Bengal Delta and its low-lying, flat topography. Several factors linked to climate change are increasing the country’s flood risk, ...

This open letter to the leaders of the UK political parties during the 2024 General Election calls on them to pledge ambitious action on climate change.

This paper uses detailed data on consumption patterns from France to quantify the gender gap in carbon footprints related to food and transport and investigate its underlying drivers.