Research article by Adrian Fenton, Helena Wright, Stavros Afionis, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq on 30 Jul 2014
Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international negotiations. Debt relief for climate finance swaps could provide an alternative source for financing mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries.
Working paper by Emanuele Campiglio on 15 Jul 2014
It is widely acknowledged that introducing a price on carbon represents a crucial precondition for filling the current gap in low-carbon investment. However, as this paper argues, carbon pricing in … read more »
Policy publication by Dimitri Zenghelis on 6 Jul 2014
The ongoing review of the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget is closely linked to the debate over the impact that domestic climate change policies can have on the competitiveness of businesses. … read more »
Presentations and data by on 3 Jul 2014
François Cohen, Matthieu Glachant and Magnus Söderberg. World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. Istanbul, 28 June – 3 July 2014. – Link to presentation
Presentations and data by Antoine Dechezleprêtre on 1 Jul 2014
Presentation given at the 2014 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics in Istanbul on 1st July.
Research article by Baran Doda on 28 Jun 2014
CO2 emissions and GDP move together over the business cycle. Most climate change researchers would agree with this statement despite the absence of a study that formally analyzes the relationship between emissions and GDP at business cycle frequencies. The paper provides a rigorous empirical analysis of this relationship in a comprehensive cross-country panel by decomposing the emissions and GDP series into their growth and cyclical components using the HP filter. read more »
Research article by Roger Fouquet on 27 Jun 2014
Data Set on the Consumption of Energy and Energy Services (1300-2008). Fouquet, R. (2014) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 8(2).
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Research article by Emanuele Campiglio on 24 Jun 2014
An expansion of economic activities with low impact on ecological resources is a crucial component of the transition to a low-carbon society. “Green” structural change is analysed here through a model with a “progressive” manufacturing sector and a “stagnant” service sector. read more »
Research article by Misato Sato on 18 Jun 2014
As increasingly complex modelling approaches to quantifying embodied carbon in trade have become popular, the lack of disaggregation has been identified as a key weakness. This paper quantifies embodied carbon in bilateral trade at the product level. read more »
Research article by James Van Alstine on 1 Jun 2014
This paper identifies how organisational field dynamics have changed over time within the field of business and development. Using the extractive industries as the empirical setting, development agency policy documents and corporate reports are analysed in order to identify convergence and divergence of discourses and changing institutional logics. The business-development organisational field became structured around […]
