Dr Chris Hope

Centre member

Chris is a Reader in Policy Modelling and Fellow of Clare Hall at the Cambridge Judge Business School, at the University of Cambridge. He is also a member of the Management Science Subject Group| there.

Chris is lead author and review editor for the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded a half share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Background

Chris has a BA from the University of Oxford, and an MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Chris was the specialist advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs Inquiry into aspects of the economics of climate change, and an advisor on the PAGE model to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. He has published extensively in books and peer-reviewed journals and recently completed PAGE09, the latest version of the PAGE integrated assessment model.

Chris previously lectured at the Department of Fuel and Energy, University of Leeds, from 1983 to 1986.

He won the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Academy of Business in Society and the Aspen Institute in 2007.

Research interests

• Numerical information in public policy;
• Policy analysis of the greenhouse effect;
• The integrated assessment modelling of climate change.

Research articles

2011

Durant, A., Le Quéré, C., Hope, C., and Friend, A.D. May 2011. Economic value of improved quantification in global sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, v.369, pp.1967-1979.

2010

Warren, R., Mastrandrea, M.D., Hope, C., and Hof, A.F. 2010. Variation in the climatic response to SRES emissions scenarios in integrated assessment models. Climatic Change, v.102, pp.671-685. External link to full article|

Méjean, A., and Hope, C. January 2010. Modelling the costs of energy crops: a case study of US corn and Brazilian sugar cane. Energy Policy, v.38, pp.547-561. External link to full article|

2009

Parry, M., Arnell, N., Berry, P., Dodman, D., Fankhauser, S., Hope, C., Kovats, S., Nicholls, R., Satterthwaite, D., Tiffin, R., Wheeler, T., Lowe, J., and Hanson, C. November/December 2009. Adaptation to climate change: assessing the costs. Environment, v.51, pp.29-36. Download PDF of document| (614KB)

Van Vuuren, D., Lowe, J., Stehfest, E., Gohar, L., Hof, A.F, Hope, C., Warren, R., Meinshausen, K., Plattner, G-K. December 2009. How well do Integrated Assessment Models simulate climate change? Climatic Change, v.104, pp.255-285. External link to full article|

Ackerman, F., Stanton, E.A., Hope, C., and Alberth, S. July 2009. Did the Stern Review underestimate US and global climate damages? Energy Policy, v.37, pp.2717-2721. External link to full article|

Hope, C. 2009. How deep should the deep cuts be? Optimal CO2 emissions over time under uncertainty. Climate Policy, v.9, pp.3-8.

2008

Méjean, A., and Hope, C. November 2008. Modelling the costs of non-conventional oil: a case study of Canadian bitumen. Energy Policy, v.36, pp.4205-4216. External link to full article|

Hope, C. 2008. Optimal carbon emissions and the social cost of carbon over time under uncertainty. Integrated Assessment, v.8, pp.107-122