Tim Laing
Research student
Tim's research title is 'Assessing the impact of institutional conditions upon programme design for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation'.
He is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Tim's research interests are in the structure of programme design for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and how institutional conditions, such as property rights, affect the choice of policy.
Background
Tim has a BA in Economics from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Development Economics from the University of Sussex.
He has worked at the Environmental Protection Agency of Guyana |as an ODI fellow and as a Research Assistant in the Electricity Policy Research Group| in Cambridge.
Research interests
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Policy design for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation;
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Effect of institutional conditions on environmental policy design;
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Low-carbon development policy;
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Interactions of development and environmental policy.
Research articles
2011
Grubb, M., Laing, T., Counsell, T., and Willian, C. February 2011. Global Carbon Mechanisms: Lessons and Implications. Climatic Change, v.1, pp.783-801. External link to full article|
2009
Laing, T., Junankar, S., Pollitt, H., and Grubb, M. March 2009. Global Carbon Mechanisms Annex II: Emissions and demand projections to 2020. Climate Strategies (technical annex to a Carbon Trust report). External link to PDF of full article| (424KB)
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