Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Ara Jo on 27 Mar 2018
This paper finds that the culture of cooperation sustained by trust within a country positively affects international cooperative behaviour, showing that an increase in trust between citizens results in larger cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. read more »
Working paper by Meaghan Daly, Suraje Dessai on 9 Mar 2018
This paper examines the role of user engagement in Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) over the last 20 years, situating user involvement in relation to the multiple goals of the RCOFs, in order to draw out lessons for co-production of climate services more broadly.
Working paper by Florence Crick on 27 Feb 2018
Produced as part of the Pathways to resilience in semi-arid economies (PRISE) project, this report contains a synthesis of the lessons learnt from two approaches to territorial governance of climate change in Senegal. read more »
Working paper by Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser, Shikha Jha, Samavia Batool, Ayesha Qaisrani on 12 Feb 2018
This research investigates the economic response of rural households in Pakistan to natural disasters, particularly the extent to which they adjust their savings and income strategies in response to floods. read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Carmen Marchiori on 31 Jan 2018
This study simulates an environmental dilemma: a group of individuals sharing a natural resource from which they can individually gain. It shows how network structure impacts social welfare and reveals the cost of exclusively relying on perfect peer monitoring and punishment to enhance cooperation. read more »
Working paper by François Cohen, Fidel Gonzalez on 19 Jan 2018
This research investigates how and why high temperature has an effect on criminality, using data from Mexico. It suggests that the additional crimes committed on hot days are due to changes in time use and habits by both criminals and their victims during times of high temperature. read more »
Working paper by Elizabeth Baldwin, Yongyang Cai, Karlygash Kuralbayeva on 19 Jan 2018
To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the use of fossil fuels must peak and then rapidly decline. This research investigates the impact of climate change policy on capital invested in fossil fuel power plants, especially coal – so-called ‘dirty’ assets. read more »
Working paper by Arlan Brucal, Inessa Love, Beata Javorcik on 18 Jan 2018
Using data from Indonesia, this study concludes that FDI can serve as a channel for international transfer of environmentally-friendly technologies and practices, thus directly contributing to environmental progress. read more »
Working paper by Damien Dussaux, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Matthieu Glachant on 16 Jan 2018
This study provides empirical evidence of the impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on low-carbon technology transfer in OECD and non-OECD countries. read more »
Working paper by Suraje Dessai, Ajay Gajanan Bhave, Cathryn Birch, Declan Conway, Luis Garcia-Carreras, John Paul Gosling, Neha Mittal, David Stainforth on 12 Jan 2018
The study shows that through expert elicitation, process-based narratives enable climate scientists to characterise deep uncertainty in future rainfall change. The method is applied to the Indian Summer Monsoon, focusing on the Cauvery river basin in Karnataka, Southern India.
