Policy publication by Joana Setzer, Rebecca Byrnes on 4 Jul 2019
This policy report provides an overview of current issues in climate change litigation, focusing on selected cases and developments from May 2018 to May 2019. The report draws on the Climate Change Laws of the World database and the U.S. Climate Change Litigation database. Headline issues Climate change litigation continues to expand across jurisdictions as […]
Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova, Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Patrick Curran on 26 Jun 2019
This report and accompanying 8-page brief examine some of the emerging challenges in climate governance in South Africa and potential solutions. The lessons identified are also relevant for other developing economies. read more »
Working paper by Simon Dietz, Falk Niehörster on 23 May 2019
The authors of this paper apply a newly developed insurance pricing model to two catastrophe model data sets relating to hurricane risk in two locations in the Atlantic basin, estimating ambiguity loads – the extra insurance premium due to ambiguity – and showing how these depend on the insurer’s attitude to ambiguity. read more »
Policy publication by Josh Burke, Sam Fankhauser on 22 May 2019
This report sets out the importance of pricing carbon as a key component of any strategy to reach net-zero emissions in the UK – that is, balancing carbon emissions with carbon removal. read more »
Research article by Majah-Leah Ravago, Arlan Brucal, James Roumasset, Jan Carlo Punongbayan on 14 May 2019
The Philippines provides an extreme example of Rodrik’s observation that late developing countries experience deindustrialization at lower levels of per capita income than more advanced economies. Previous studies point … read more »
Research article by Arlan Brucal, Michael Roberts on 14 May 2019
We build novel welfare-based price indices for major household appliances that leverage changes in same-model prices and how consumers substitute between exiting, continuing and new models. We then evaluate … read more »
Policy publication by Isabella Neuweg, Nicholas Stern on 7 May 2019
Headline issues Wellbeing, quality and sustainability: the new focuses of China’s transformation The 14th Five-Year Plan (covering 2021–25) will be a crucial element in shaping the new era, for China and for the world. China’s transformation has seen it rise from low-income to upper-middle-income status in just over four decades. China will transform again in […]
Research article by Joana Setzer on 1 May 2019
Subnational diplomacy has become an increasingly important part of foreign policy and international relations. This observation concerns a state of affairs that is not necessarily obvious or given. First, by … read more »
Working paper by Jared Finnegan on 9 Apr 2019
This paper focuses on the role of political institutions, particularly electoral rules, and state–business relationships, to ask why some countries take strong action to address long-term problems like climate change while others do very little. read more »
Working paper by Lutz Sager on 4 Apr 2019
This paper estimates the global distribution of the costs to consumers from carbon pricing, finding that some policies may be considered regressive for their burden on poorer consumers – but that the benefits from mitigating climate change may weaken or reverse the regressive effect. read more »
