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 »
Policy publication by Nicholas Stern on 28 Mar 2019
Nicholas Stern contends that embarking on a path of strong, sustainable and inclusive growth can deliver the zero-carbon economy and the Sustainable Development Goals, and that such a strategy both requires, and can help create, a new internationalism. This is an extended version of a lecture by Professor Stern delivered in February 2019 at the University of Cambridge. read more »
Working paper by Greer Gosnell, John List, Robert Metcalfe on 28 Mar 2019
This paper draws on the findings of a field experiment with Virgin Atlantic Airways which showed that changes to the behaviour of pilots brought about through monitoring, target setting and small incentives helped bring about fuel savings and, as a result, large cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. read more »
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Eli Fenichel, Alexander Gordan, Patrick Gourley on 22 Mar 2019
This paper describes the benefits of a game created as an active learning method to teach current and future decision-makers about the ‘cap and trade’ system, one of the most innovative policy options developed by environmental economists. read more »
