Policy publication by Joana Setzer on 31 Jul 2021
Legal Interventions examines three categories of legal intervention that can enable cities to drive climate action: litigation, legal reform initiatives and…
Policy publication by Josh Burke, Esin Serin on 29 Jul 2021
The UK’s net-zero commitment assumes the use of greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies, but there is little understanding of how they might be funded and who will bear the cost. This study prepared for the National Infrastructure Commission analyses how the distribution of costs for funding these technologies impacts society across income deciles.
Working paper by Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser on 27 Jul 2021
There is considerable anxiety about the international impact of unilateral action on climate change, particularly around ‘carbon leakage’. Looking at the impact of national climate change policy and legislation over the past two decades, this paper finds no evidence it has increased international carbon leakage.
Policy publication by Nick Robins, Sabrina Muller on 23 Jul 2021
This report sets out a framework of just transition expectations that investors can use in conducting due diligence and assessments of companies, engaging with portfolio holdings and allocating capital. The framework is based on international standards and emerging practice and is applied to five companies in the European electric utilities sector.
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.
