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Ben Groom

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Dragon Capital Chair of Biodiversity Economics. www.dragonchair.org.uk.

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Apr 3

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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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · Mar 12

This short piece is well worth your time. Europe either stands together or falls as individual member states. The suggestions here may sound impossible, unimaginable, but we live in truly exceptional times and must strive for exceptional solutions.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Mar 12

How should Europe structure its response to the threats coming from the White House and elsewhere? Together with @marcobuti.bsky.social, Roel Beetsma & Kalin Jansve, we developed a plan @bruegel.bsky.social ⤵️

www.bruegel.org/analysis/thi...

Thinking European first and its implications

Faced with heightened geopolitical uncertainty, the European Union should base its actions on an overarching principle of ‘thinking European first’

www.bruegel.org

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jul 27

Also. Remind me. Subsidies to FF? That’s a thing right?

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jul 27

Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were
Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jul 15

Loved the book btw.

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · Jul 2

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 · Jun 25

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 · Jun 20

"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,

open.substack.com

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

deryugina.com

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hi Rob. A lot to say here. In short. UK ONS has natural capital accounts. The UN SEEA also. Some are just physical, others in monetary terms. The US Biden admin had a structure in place which has not yet been torn up, and may not be since it focusses on minerals, oil, forests and fish. Progress

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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

www.lse.ac.uk

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Manuel Linsenmeier @mlinsenmeier.bsky.social · Jun 15

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 · Jun 5

BIOECON 2025 REGISTRATION is open! sites.google.com/view/26th-bi.... St Johns College Cambridge, 31st Aug - 2nd Sept.

https://sites.google.com/view/26th-bioecon…

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 · May 27

@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...

www.uni-leipzig.de

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · May 18

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 · May 8

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.

www.edf.org

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · May 5

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · May 5

The gargantuan long…

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · May 5

"It is to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects...yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man."

Read, discuss, share. Don't ignore.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · May 5

This editorial is worth a close read, and a course of action.

Fight like our democracy depends on it, because it does.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o... [gift link]

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · May 2

Hats off to @moritzdrupp.bsky.social and Martin Hänsel for bringing it together so beautifully @martatalevi.bsky.social. Quite the author list. Thanks!

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NBER @nber.org · May 2

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 https://www.nber.org/papers/w33723

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · May 1

A research team including @bengroom.bsky.social from @leepinstitute.bsky.social is one of the national winners of the Frontiers Planet Prize for their new method of calculating the benefits that arise from conserving biodiversity and nature for future generations.

news.exeter.ac.uk/research/exe...

Exeter researcher receives Frontiers Planet Prize honour

An Exeter academic has been recognised by the Frontiers Planet Prize for providing a breakthrough to an important environmental issue. Professor Ben Groom from the University of Exeter Business School...

news.exeter.ac.uk

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · May 1

Funny not funny.

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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · Apr 30

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

Media on Demand | California State AssemblyBack to Top

www.assembly.ca.gov

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Apr 30

@leep1nstitute.bsky.social

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Apr 28

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...

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 · Apr 26

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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