Sentences with phrase «sir nicholas»

Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, is delighted to present his report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change: The Stern team has moved to the Office of Climate Change.

He quotes Sir Nicholas Stern's report on the economics of climate change to demonstrate that global warming will devastate species diversity: «Ecosystems will be particularly vulnerable to climate change, with around 15 — 40 per cent of species potentially facing extinction after only 2 °C of warming.»

This was the conclusion of Sir Nicholas Stern; and it is ridiculous for a non-economist to try and suggest that he was wrong.

Similarly, in his 2006 report on the economic consequences of climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern wrote that, «If we don't act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least five per cent of global GDP each year, now and forever.»

Sir Nicholas Stern to join IDEAGlobal Group as Vice Chairmanam Such expertise, will fit well with the broad - ranging economics and analysis conducted by IDEAglobal and also with the aims of IDEAcarbon, recently launched to provide market analysis and rate any asset with carbon collateral providing a standard risk measure for participants in this rapidly growing sector.

And just a day later, Sir Nicholas Stern did too, dourly noting that the costs of so doing have doubled over the past few years.

Neither are the big names like Professor Lord Sir Nicholas Stern or his rottweiler Bob Ward.

I like his analyses because he thinks at the strategic level, he provides results that are valuable for informing policy, he makes his work readily understandable for non experts and, especially important, he appears to be more objective, less partisan, and less tainted by the CAGW group - think than most of the other analysts doing similar work (such as Sir Nicholas Stern and Ross Garnaut).

Esther Bollendorff, Climate campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said, «Governments across Europe must take the warning of internationally - respected economist Sir Nicholas Stern, that fighting climate change is now fundamentally linked to the health of the global economy.

Notes to Editors: [1] The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change will be published on Monday 30th October when Sir Nicholas Stern will present his conclusions at the Royal Society.

the eminent economist Sir Nicholas Stern's report on climate change commissioned by the British Government, which found the economic impact of climate change to be greater than the Great Depression and World War Two combined.

We could recommend the eminent economist Sir Nicholas Stern's report on climate change commissioned by the British Government, which found the economic impact of climate change to be greater than the Great Depression and World War Two combined.

To challenge Sir Nicholas's apparent profiting from his report would be to undermine the very foundations of so many environmentalists» arguments.

The first year I attended we had British economist Sir Nicholas Stern join us as a speaker.

Nonetheless, we had a big day ahead with opportunities to listen to Kofi Annan, Sir Nicholas Stern (lead UK economist and author of the Stern report) and the ministerial statements.

Sir Nicholas Stern has placed a short reply to the comments on his review on the Treasury Independent Reviews page.

Sir Nicholas Stern, The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (London: HM Treasury, 2006), pp vi — ix.

(emphasis added) Of course it is not true re natural disasters being any more frequent now or atributable to GW; otherwise why have there been no Katrinas at all this year in the USA, but that will not stop Sir Nicholas Stern repeating yet again on Tuesday his claim last March that Katrinas will become ever more common year by year as [email protected] keeps rising.

As Sir Nicholas Stern put it, «The sting is in the tail.»

Thank you Sir Nicholas Stern - lets hope that your report does not just gather dust!

According to Sir Nicholas, «Scientists have been refining their assessment of the probable degree of warming for a given level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere», and «ranges from 2004 estimates are substantially above those from 2001 — science is telling us that the warming effect is greater than we had previously thought.»

Sir Nicholas Stern stressed that things have changed, while A&H now argue that they have remained the same.

I didn't presume that Sir Nicholas spoke with any other authority, and I certainly didn't endorse his alarmist conclusion, presented as a certainty, that under «business - as - usual... we can see that we are headed for some pretty unpleasant increases of temperature [of 4 or 5ºC].»

The change since 2001 was stressed by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK's Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change in his keynote address at Oxford on 31 January (in the week before A&H was accepted by GRL).

The artists were chosen for the commission by a panel including the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota.

This year's other judges are Margot Heller, director of the South London Gallery; Matthew Higgs, director and chief curator at White Columns in New York; the writer and critic Andrew Renton and, representing the Tate, Sir Nicholas Serota.

Sara Faith studied History of Art at the University of Manchester under Sir Nicholas Penny.

«It was not the kind of show that you would normally see in a commercial gallery,» says Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate museums and galleries, who was then at London's nonprofit Whitechapel Gallery.

Sir Nicholas said: «We live in a moment of big political change.

The group held numerous exhibitions in Britain during the early 2000s, including «The First Art Show of the New Millennium» (Jan 1st 2000), and «The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota» (March 2000), along with several annual shows entitled «The Real Turner Prize Show», as well as a number of other events.

Sir Nicholas Serota, head of Tate, and chairman of the judges since the prize began in 1984, said painting had not been omitted from the list because it was too boring.

Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota said: «This is an exhibition that will open up some quite difficult issues.

They exist to fight for the return of painting to the centre of artistic endeavour and debate, and to expose the alleged stranglehold on the art world by a group of powerful champions of conceptualism led by the Tate chief Sir Nicholas Serota.

They jokingly awarded a custard pie to Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Galleries and chairman of the prize committee, for being «Art Clown of the Year».

The sale will dash the hopes of the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota, of securing the shark for display in Tate Modern.

The Stuckists, who dislike the conceptual art they claim is championed by Sir Nicholas Serota and the Tate, were demonstrating outside the gallery last night.

A painting in the show, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision by Charles Thomson, has since been reproduced in the media many times and become an iconic image for the Stuckists.

Turner prize judge Sir Nicholas Serota has never explained why the likes of David Hockney have never featured on the Turner prize shortlist.

[2] Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate gallery, has recognised the demonstrations as a contribution to artistic debate, [3] and the Tate archive contains material from the demonstrations, [4] which are now a staple feature of the Turner Prize process.

But the jury, which included the critic Louisa Buck and the Barbican gallery's head, Kate Bush, with Sir Nicholas Serota, the Tate's director, as chairman, expressed their «admiration» for all the artists and stressed the strength of the exhibition at Tate Britain.

Speaking at the ceremony, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota said this year's Turner prize exhibition had been one of the most successful.

Saatchi calls his new show The Triumph of Painting, and after the destruction of an important part of his collection in a warehouse fire in east London, feuds with Hirst and Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota, and squabbles with his County Hall landlord, he could do with a triumph.

The demonstrators were approached by Sir Nicholas Serota, and the atmosphere was tense, according to Thomson: «I thought he was going to explode... I looked at his face and I thought, this guy's going to lose it and hit me, or he's going to burst into tears.»

«That a group of works that have remained together for 200 years should be split up for financial reasons means that any opportunity for scholars to see them has evaporated,» said Sir Nicholas Serota, the Tate's director.

Tate insiders said Sir Nicholas, who also chairs the Turner Prize judging panel, was not willing to speak publicly.

Introducing the award, Turner chairman and Tate gallery director Sir Nicholas Serota attacked the UK media for taking delight in a warehouse fire that destroyed many works of modern art earlier this year.

No judge but Sir Nicholas Serota has been allowed to serve more than once on the Turner prize jury; Serota serves on every single one.

Sir Nicholas Serota, who received # 27.5 million this year from Mr Howells's department to run the galleries, was in America.

Participants include Emanuel Christ (Christ & Gantenbein), artist Thomas Demand, architect Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), artist Roni Horn, architect Thomas Phifer (Thomas Phifer and Partners), Sir Nicholas Serota (Chair, Arts Council England; former Director, Tate), Nancy Spector (Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation), David van der Leer (Executive Director, Van Alen Institute), and artist Danh Vo, with author and critic Paul Goldberger as moderator.

Curtis has already done more to change Tate Britain for the better than any director since the great Sir Nicholas Serota himself.