Delivering climate finance: principles and practice for funding the Fund
Mattia Romani and Nicholas Stern Read the release about this paper.
Topic: Climate justice and ethics
Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring ‘permanence’ in carbon sequestration
Opportunistic behaviour due to imperfect contract enforcement is a risk in many economic transactions. In this paper, an enforcement-proof incentive contract is developed in which a buyer demands a … read more »
Human rights norms for business: the missing piece of the ruggie jigsaw – the case of institutional investors.
Sullivan. R., and Hachez, N. 2011. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: foundations and implementation (R. Mares [ed.]), pp. 217-244. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Government discounting controversies: the valuation of social time preference
The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for the comparison of policies or projects from a national perspective … read more »
Government discounting controversies: changing prices, opportunity costs and systematic risk
The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for public sector analysis have been debated for over half a … read more »
Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?
Cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gas emissions are an important part of the climate change policies of the EU, Japan, New Zealand, among others, as well as China (soon) and … read more »
Constructing a Private Climate Change Lawsuit under English Law: a comparative perspective
Constructing a Private Climate Change Lawsuit under English Law: a comparative perspective – Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, New York. Giedré Kaminskaité-Salters, Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, September 2010.
Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the … read more »
Climate change: the ultimate tragedy of the commons?
Property in Land and Other Resources (Cole, DH. and Ostrom, E. [eds.], Institute for Land Policy, pp.417-433.
Spaces of Contestation: The Governance of Industry’s Environmental Performance in Durban, South Africa
Van Alstine J (2010), Utting P; Marques JC (Ed) Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance, International Political Economy Series, Palgrave MacMillan.