Policy publication by Dimitri Zenghelis on 26 Feb 2016
Submission to inquiry on by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. External link to publication
Policy publication by Alex Bowen, Simon Dietz on 26 Feb 2016
This report is part of Finansinspektionen´s (FI’s) response to a request from the Swedish government to “Analyse and in a written report outline how environmental and climate change may affect … read more »
Working paper by Monica Di Gregorio, Leandra Fatorelli, Emilia Pramova, Peter May, Bruno Locatelli, Maria Brockhaus on 24 Feb 2016
This paper investigates climate policy integration and coherence in land use policies in Brazil. Unlike other policy analyses a key aim is to assess ‘internal policy coherence’ in the climate change domain, or the extent to which positive and negative interactions between mitigation and adaptation are taken into account in policy formulation. The paper is […]
Research article by Nicholas Stern on 24 Feb 2016
Nicholas Stern calls on scientists, engineers and economists to help policymakers by better modelling the immense risks to future generations, and the potential for action. read more »
Research article by Jouni Paavola, Andy Gouldson, Ross Gillard, James Van Alstine on 24 Feb 2016
There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental adjustments, aiming instead for society-wide transformation. In this context, socio-technical (ST) transitions and social-ecological (SE) resilience are two prominent normative agendas. Reviewing these literatures reveals how both share a complex-systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregrounding […]
Research article by Andrew Sudmant, Andy Gouldson, Sarah Colenbrander, Faye McAnulla, N. Kerr on 23 Feb 2016
A growing body of literature suggests that an economic case may exist for investment in large-scale climate change mitigation. At the same time, however, investment is persistently falling well short of the levels required to prevent dangerous climate change, suggesting that economically attractive mitigation opportunities are being missed. To understand whether and where these opportunities […]
Research article by Bob Ward on 23 Feb 2016
A response to ‘Impact of Current Climate Proposals’ Bjorn Lomborg Global Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1, pages 125–126, February 2016
Research article by Adolf Acquaye, Thomas Wiedmann, John Barrett, J. Kuylenstierna, Simon McQueen-Mason on 18 Feb 2016
It is expected that biodiesel production in the EU will remain the dominant contributor as part of a 10% minimum binding target for biofuel in transportation fuel by 2020 within the 20% renewable energy target in the overall EU energy mix. Life cycle assessments (LCA) of biodiesel to evaluate its environmental impacts have, however, remained […]
Working paper by Antony Millner on 17 Feb 2016
Agents exhibit pure intergenerational altruism if they care not just about the consumption utility experienced by future generations, but about their total wellbeing. If all generations are altruistic, each generation’s … read more »
Working paper by Ben Wood, Andy Dougill, Claire Quinn, Lindsay Stringer on 11 Feb 2016
Climate-Compatible Development (CCD) is gaining traction as a conceptual framework for mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation within development efforts. Understanding whether and how CCD design processes reconcile the preferences of different stakeholders operating across global, national and local scales is important for revealing: how the concept contends with patterns of socio-cultural and political oppression […]
