Climate summit’s pledges on carbon cuts ‘won’t avert global disaster’
Government targets leave emission levels too high to prevent a big temperature rise, warns team of experts led by economist Nicholas Stern read more »
Topic: International negotiations and agreements
Why are we waiting? The logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
Nicholas Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006—and far worse than implied by standard economic models. read more »
Book Review: How Effective Negotiation Management Promotes Multilateral Cooperation: The power of process in climate, trade and biosafety negotiations
Reviewed by Joanna Depledge in Global Policy. read more »
Do international factors influence the passage of climate change legislation?
The number of climate change laws in major economies has grown from less than 40 in 1997 to almost 500 at the end of 2013. The passage of these laws is influenced by both domestic and international factors. This paper reviews the main international factors, drawing on a powerful new dataset of climate legislation in 66 national jurisdictions. We find that the propensity to legislate on climate change is heavily influenced by the passage of similar laws elsewhere, suggesting a strong and so far under-appreciated role for international policy diffusion. read more »
Davos 2015: climate change makes a comeback
Financial crisis pushed global warming down the agenda but Lord Stern’s respected climate economics are leading its way back up read more »
Aaron Wu
Aaron’s current research focus is on international environmental law and critical legal studies. Background Aaron holds BCom and LLB degrees with Honours from the University of Adelaide, and an LLM … read more »
Luring others into climate action: Coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects
Cooperation between countries is required to overcome major societal problems, such as climate change. However, rational logic dictates that individual countries are incentivised not to act, instead preferring to … read more »
10 predictions for 2015
Michael Jacobs predicts a legally-binding agreement at the Paris 2015 climate conference. read more »
Post-2020 climate agreements in the major economies assessed in the light of global models
Integrated assessment models can help in quantifying the implications of international climate agreements and regional climate action. This paper reviews scenario results from model intercomparison projects to explore different … read more »
Towards agreement in Paris 2015: Why domestic issues matter more than international law
As the climate change negotiations at COP20 in Lima come to a close, the question of whether the new climate agreement being negotiated should be “internationally legally binding” remains an unresolved point of controversy. read more »