Long-term corporate climate change targets: what could they deliver?
March 2013. In: Environmental Science & Policy, v.27, pp.1-10.
Topic: Competitiveness, trade and economic growth
The Socioeconomic drivers of China?s primary PM2.5
Guan, Dabo. Environmental Research Letters, Volume 9, Number 2
Licensing and certification to increase skills provision and utilization amongst low carbon SMEs
Green skills, that is, skills needed in a low-carbon economy, will be required in all sectors and at all levels in the workforce as emerging economic activities create new (or renewed) occupations. Structural changes will realign sectors that are likely to decline as a result of the greening of the economy and workers will need […]
Alex Bowen
Background Before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science, Alex worked at the Bank of England, most recently as a Senior Policy Adviser. Alex’s current research interests were … read more »
Staying with the leaders: Europe’s path to a successful low-carbon economy
Neuhoff, K., Acworth, W., Dechezleprêtre, A., Dröge, S., Sartor, O., Sato, M., Schleicher, S., and Schopp, A. 2014. Climate Strategies. Berlin, Germany and London, UK.
Cameron Hepburn
Cameron works for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment on the projects ‘Climate science and decision making’ and ‘Mitigation of climate change: carbon markets and technology’. … read more »
China?s international trade and air pollution in the United States
Guan, Dabo. 2014. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol 111 No 5 1736-1741
Resource governance dynamics: The challenge of ‘new oil’ in Uganda
Resource governance norms have evolved at multiple scales to counter the potential negative socio-economic, environmental and institutional impacts of the extractive industries. Advocates of these ‘good governance’ initiatives have sought to mainstream transparency throughout the extractive industries value chain and implement pro-poor projects at the site level. However, these types of resource governance interventions often […]
Transparency in resource governance: the pitfalls and potential of “new oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa
An international agenda has evolved over the past decade to establish hard and soft rules to govern the impacts of the extractive industries. The international community and some resource-rich states have increasingly embraced norms such as transparency in resource governance. This paper explores how multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) and […]
Non-economic losses in the context of the UNFCCC work programme on loss and damage
Sam Fankhauser, Simon Dietz and Phillip Gradwell