Research article by Alessandro Tavoni on 6 Mar 2017
The bottom-up approach promoted through the Paris Agreement and signed in 2016 requires the definition of accurate and realistic national pathways to cut emissions. A recent study applied to … read more »
Research article by Valentina Bosetti, Melanie Heugues, Alessandro Tavoni on 17 Feb 2017
We explore the prospects of cooperation in a threshold public bad game. The experiment’s setup allows us to investigate the issue of effort coordination between signatories and non-signatories to … read more »
Policy publication by Bob Ward, Maria Carvalho on 24 Jan 2017
This submission to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s inquiry on Leaving the EU: negotiation priorities for energy and climate change policy focuses on the following questions: Which aspects … read more »
Book by Stavros Afionis on 23 Jan 2017
The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations. Its role in the development of the climate change regime, as well as the adoption of novel policy instruments such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2005, are frequently put forward as indicative of a determination to push the international climate […]
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Simon Levin, Alessandro Tavoni on 18 Jan 2017
This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the scope for cooperation in the climate commons and on the effectiveness of possible interventions to spur it. Given the global public … read more »
Policy publication by Sam Fankhauser, Maria Carvalho on 19 Dec 2016
Presentation given at the LSE Conference ‘Britain and Europe: Towards Brexit?’ in Brussels on 8th December 2016. read more »
Research article by Kai Monheim on 2 Dec 2016
The management of a multilateral negotiation has frequently played a crucial role in developing global regimes but is often ignored in International Relations theory. The long-awaited UN climate summit … read more »
Research article by Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni on 30 Nov 2016
Abstract The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. While 10% of greenhouse gas emissions generated by transportation are related to civil aviation, the use of offsets in this industry remains marginal for both leisure and business traveling. This paper exploits a unique […]
Research article by Sander Chan, Robert Falkner, Matthew Goldberg, Harro van Asselt on 21 Nov 2016
Climate actions by non-state and subnational actors are an important complement to the multilateral climate regime and the associated contributions made by national governments. Although such actions hold much potential, … read more »
Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova, Keith J. Benes, Fergus Green, Augustin Lagarde, Isabella Neuweg, Georg Zachmann on 17 Nov 2016
China, the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) are responsible for the majority of global emissions of greenhouse gases, and produce about half of global GDP. … read more »
