Policy publication by Rodney Boyd, Nicholas Stern, Bob Ward on 4 May 2015
Countries agreed at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru, in December 2014 to set out their “intended nationally determined contributions” (INDCs) … read more »
Policy publication by Nicholas Stern on 23 Mar 2015
Paper asserts that overseas aid to support developing countries should be interwoven with efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. It claims that efforts to separate the two could be deeply damaging. read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Jungmin Lee, Doruk İriş on 20 Mar 2015
The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. read more »
Book by Nicholas Stern on 1 Mar 2015
Nicholas Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006—and far worse than implied by standard economic models. read more »
Research article by Sam Fankhauser, Caterina Gennaioli on 29 Jan 2015
The number of climate change laws in major economies has grown from less than 40 in 1997 to almost 500 at the end of 2013. The passage of these laws is influenced by both domestic and international factors. This paper reviews the main international factors, drawing on a powerful new dataset of climate legislation in 66 national jurisdictions. We find that the propensity to legislate on climate change is heavily influenced by the passage of similar laws elsewhere, suggesting a strong and so far under-appreciated role for international policy diffusion. read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, Melanie Heugues on 13 Jan 2015
Cooperation between countries is required to overcome major societal problems, such as climate change. However, rational logic dictates that individual countries are incentivised not to act, instead preferring to … read more »
Research article by Alex Bowen, Emanuele Campiglio on 16 Dec 2014
Integrated assessment models can help in quantifying the implications of international climate agreements and regional climate action. This paper reviews scenario results from model intercomparison projects to explore different … read more »
Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova, Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis on 11 Dec 2014
Countries are now seeking to reach a new international agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015. A key element of the international negotiations … read more »
Policy publication by Nicholas Stern on 8 Dec 2014
Paper explores 4 key elements on which an agreeement at the COP21 – Paris 2015 Climate Change talks could be based read more »
Presentations and data by Alina Averchenkova on 7 Dec 2014
Presentation give at the GLOBE COP20 Legislators Summit on 7 December 2014 in Lima. read more »
