Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova, Sini Matikainen on 17 Nov 2016
This study uses the ‘Paris consistency monitor’ to assess whether the past and present action by G20 countries on climate mitigation is consistent with meeting the key requirements … read more »
Policy publication by Bob Ward, Maria Carvalho on 2 Nov 2016
This is a submission by the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science to the inquiry on ‘Brexit: environment and climate change’ by the House of Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee. It highlights […]
Working paper by Greer Gosnell, Alessandro Tavoni on 15 Aug 2016
The recent global climate change agreement in Paris leaves a wide gap between pledged and requisite emissions reductions in keeping with the commonly accepted 2°C target. A recent strand of … read more »
Research article by Luca Taschini, Charles Palmer on 24 Jun 2016
Laing, Timothy, Taschini, Luca and Palmer, Charles (2016). In: Environmental Conservation
Working paper by Veerle Heyvaert on 20 Jun 2016
This working paper argues that the rise of transnational regulation has a transformative impact on law. It examines the field of transnational environmental regulation to show that its proliferation challenges … read more »
Working paper by Doruk İriş, Alessandro Tavoni on 20 May 2016
We study the impact of loss-aversion and the threat of catastrophic damages, which we jointly call threshold concerns, on international environmental agreements. We aim to understand whether a threshold for … read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Doruk İriş on 20 May 2016
We live in a world characterized by discontinuities, where thresholds for abrupt and irreversible change are omnipresent, both in economic and ecological dynamics. Such thresholds, often referred to as tipping … read more »
Policy publication by Chris Duffy on 10 May 2016
The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that setting a target to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases to an average of 57 per cent below their 1990 levels during … read more »
Research article by Fergus Green, Nicholas Stern on 7 Mar 2016
As China’s government finalises the country’s 13th Five Year Plan for economic development (2016–2020), this article takes stock of recent changes in China’s economy and energy system since the turn … read more »
Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova on 1 Feb 2016
This report provides the results of an analysis of “intended nationally determined contributions”, or INDCs, that were submitted by countries ahead of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
