Working paper by Greer Gosnell, Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni on 16 Jul 2021
Increasing the uptake of behaviours that are not yet niche is crucial to the sustainable energy transition. The authors of this paper test a novel approach to foster the uptake of renewable energy tariffs among a large sample of households in England and Wales.
Working paper by Sara Mehryar, Idan Sasson, Swenja Surminski on 16 Jul 2021
This study explores how and to what extent tools to measure urban climate resilience can be or have been utilised by city-level actors to support their decision-making processes for building resilience.
Policy publication by Daire McCoy, Josh Burke, Esin Serin on 8 Jul 2021
This submission was made by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for…
Policy publication by Joana Setzer, Catherine Higham on 2 Jul 2021
This is the third report in our Global trends in climate litigation series, focusing on cases filed or concluded between May 2020 and May 2021. It provides an update of known case numbers, metrics and categorisations, and considers some of the most relevant trends in the arguments and strategies employed by litigants.
Working paper by Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, Nicholas Sanders on 28 Jun 2021
Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences.
Working paper by Eugenie Dugoua on 14 Jun 2021
This paper provides evidence that the Montreal Protocol’s restrictions on CFCs triggered a substantial increase in research and innovation on alternatives to ozone-depleting molecules and suggests such international environmental agreements can dynamically improve the benefit-cost equation of environmental protection and may therefore also be useful to dealing with current problems such as climate change.
Policy publication by Pia Andres on 11 Jun 2021
This report uses a new data-driven online tool, the Green Transition Navigator, to analyse the green competitiveness of the seven individual G7 member states and invited countries.
Research article by Daire McCoy on 8 Jun 2021
The distributional impact of the low-carbon transition is an increasingly important topic both for academics and policymakers. Quantifying where the…
Working paper by Elisabeth Isaksen, Bjørn Johansen on 7 Jun 2021
This paper shows that differentiating driving costs by time of day and vehicle type can help to improve urban air quality, reduce driving and induce the adoption of electric vehicles.
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Sam Fankhauser, Jianjian Gao, Caterina Gennaioli, Pietro Panzarasa on 2 Jun 2021
This paper applies the tools of network analysis to understand the global network of international cooperation created by the system of international environmental agreements, which number more than 2,000.
